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**Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry**__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.__ ―from “WHEREAS Statements” __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 a

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Author

Layli Long Soldier

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555977672

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.36 / 5 (310 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14