Whereas

by Long Soldier, Layli

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Title Statements

Full title :Whereas / Layli Long Soldier.

Summary

This volume confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through an array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created an innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. "I am," she writes, "a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation -- and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Graywolf Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:101 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781555977672, 1555977677
oclc:ocn946693814
LC Classification:PS3612.O526
Dewey Decimal:811/.6

Subjects

American poetry American poetry -- 21st century Indian women Indian women -- Poetry Indiennes d'Amérique -- Poésie Literature Native Americans -- Poetry -- North Ame… Oglala (Indiens) -- Poésie Oglala Indians Oglala Indians -- Poetry Poésie Poetry POETRY -- Native American