Whereas / Layli Long Soldier.
Author/creator |
Long Soldier, Layli author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017] |
Description | 101 pages ; 23 cm |
Subject(s) |
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Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
Contents | Part I: These being the concerns -- H̆e Sa̕pa -- Look -- Diction -- Vaporative -- Head count -- Steady Summer -- To̕kȟaȟ a̓n -- Dilate -- Left -- Wakh̆a̓lyapi -- Talent -- Let -- Wah̆pa̓niča -- Irony -- We -- Edge -- 38 -- Part II: (1) Whereas statements -- (2) Resolutions -- (3) Disclaimer. |
Abstract | 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." |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Genre/form | Poetry. |
Genre/form | Poetry. |
LCCN | 2016938845 |
ISBN | 9781555977672 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1555977677 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Stock number | Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011 |
Available Items
Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | General Stacks | PS3612 .O526 A6 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |