Whereas: Poems
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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.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781555977672
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2016
Booklist 02/01/2017 pg. 17
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2017
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 90
About the Author
Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in Arizona and teaches at Diné College.