WHEREAS Layli Long Soldier. Emilia Phillips. ... the bravura poem “38,” a riff on the 38 … Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honours from Bard College. 120 pages.
Few Americans seem to know much about the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, and fewer still are acquainted with the Occupation’s “Proclamation, ” a masterful document that deploys the language, diction, and vocabulary of unfair treaties and paternalism against the government that initiated those treaties.

Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Because drag changes when spoken of in the past i.e. And to drag has a begin point (though two are considered): … https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/books/review/whereas-layli-long-soldier.html Layli Long Soldier. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 2017. he was dragged or they drug him down the long road, the pale rock and brown. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Awards. 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. Ȟe Sápa, Two. 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. $16.00. Whereas Layli Long Soldier Graywolf; March 7, 2017 120 pp; $16. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award.She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Down dust, a knocking path. Biography. reviewed by Michael Wasson “Now / make room in the mouth,” writes Layli Long Soldier in her innovative and kaleidoscopic debut book of poems, Whereas.Setting a crucial motif with neither a title nor punctuation, the concluding line then commands, “for the grassesgrassesgrasses.” Layli Long Soldier is an Indigenous poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist, and a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe.

Layli Long Soldier's debut poetry collection "Whereas" makes transparent a history of Native Americans that is tragically opaque. 2017. Buy: paperback. She earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her Master’s at Bard College.