Whereas / Layli Long Soldier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long Soldier, Layli, author.

Contributor:

Graywolf Press, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Poetry.

Indian women.

Oglala Indians--Poetry.

Oglala Indians.

Genre:

Poetry

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 101, [9] pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]

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."

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

National Book Award: Poetry Finalist 2017.

National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2017

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

9781555977672

1555977677

OCLC:

946693814

Publisher Number:

99974549605