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Layli Long Soldier explores community, family and history in this collection of poetry, essays and artwork inspired by Lakota traditions.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
An extraordinary work of poetry, essay, and artwork by Layli Long Soldier, author of the award-winning WHEREAS
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...























