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Layli Long Soldier · 2017 · United States / Oglala Lakota

A poetry collection responding to the U.S. congressional apology to Native peoples through grammar, spacing, legal speech, and form.

Notes and Misconceptions

Testimony matters here, but the book is doing more than bearing witness.

The book is also an exacting study of official language and the violence hidden inside apology.

Best Path

Legal language, Indigenous literature, documentary poetry

Reading Paths

  • Speculative Pressure, Poetry, and Language Systems

    Works that treat language itself as a field of pressure: official speech, legal grammar, war vocabulary, utopia.

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poetryindigenous-litlegal-languageapologyformamerican-litdocumentary