Description
In this powerful, formally inventive collection, a Native American poet confronts the coercive language of U.S. treaties, government resolutions, and official apologies while tracing the enduring consequences of Dakota history and displacement. Moving between personal reflection, historical record, prose, lyric, and experimental forms, the poems question what language can preserve, distort, or repair across the boundaries between Lakota and English. Intimate yet urgent, the book explores sovereignty, memory, cultural inheritance, grief, and the possibility of meaningful reckoning. Its precise, incisive style exposes the distance between institutional words and lived experience while creating new forms of witness and resistance.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
121 pages
ISBN: 9781555979614
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Whereas by Layli Long Soldier.