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Cargando... WHEREAS: Poems (2017)por Layli Long Soldier
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent investigation of language. I admit I didn't initially connect much with 1-2 but section 3 (Whereas) is well worth reading, for everyone. For the thoughtfulness on identity and form, this requires careful reading, but I recommend anyone trying it power through what doesn't land and keep reading for what does. ( ) I cannot claim to KNOW poetry, but there is writing in Whereas by Layli Long Soldier that speaks to me. - "still I say baby soft like a poet two even syllables as.in. bo.dy. or I.was." Left, Two - “And let the body swing. From the platform. Out to the grasses.” 38 I do not have the language to elaborate why, but I recommend this collection of poetry. Whereas should be required reading. If I had kids I would encourage them to read this text that cuts across genres and uses form in a way that is bold without being too much. There's so much in the political and historical action of these poems intertwined with phenomenon of experience from an indigenous perspective in the United States, a country that's system are deeply structured by racism and oppression. The first section of the collection plays with language and form. The second section is more grounded and is a response to the formal apology given by congress to the native peoples in 2009. Here again the author plays with language to demonstrate the emptiness of the apology. These poems are complex and working at a different level than many others I’ve read. A great, important collection. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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