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Whereas : poems / Layli Long Soldier. by Long Soldier, Layli. Graywolf Press, 2017. Call #: 811.6 L849w Subjects American poetry -- Women authors   American poetry -- Indigenous authors.   American poetry -- 21st century.   Indian women -- North America -- Poetry.   Oglala Indians -- Poetry. ISBN:  9781555977672 (pbk.) Description:  101 pages ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Part I: These being the concerns -- Part II: Whereas. Summary:  "An astonishing, powerful debut. Whereas her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don't worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father's language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. Whereas 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 a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly 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." This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature. Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010). A citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Long Soldier lives in Tsaile, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  American poetry. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 811.6 L849w Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 811.6 L849w Adult books Checked out Jun 22, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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