We: Layli Long Soldier in Conversation with Heid E. Erdrich
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Pohlad Hall (Downtown Central Library) 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis MN 55401 Birchbark Books hosts Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier, joined by Heid E. Erdrich, for a reading and discussion of her new collection, We. In We, Layli Long Soldier examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation with family, nation, history, and language. We is the first-person plural, the pronoun of inclusion in English. It is also Wé, the Lakota word meaning “blood”—what is shared and what is shed. In this ingenious and insightful arrangement of poems, lyric essays, and her own visual artworks presented in full color, Long Soldier creates unique spaces of collaboration, mentorship, and shared knowledge. The 184 X’s signed to a broken treaty, the fringes of a winged dress braided in honor of children lost to Indian boarding schools, and intricate Lakota star quilts become shapes and patterns that convey collective kinship, memory, and grievance. “From this day forward,” Long Soldier wri
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- Layli Long SoldierAuthor
- Heid E. ErdrichAuthor
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- WeLayli Long Soldier
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