We

“One of the most unforgettable poetic encounters you’ll have this year.”–Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books

“Long Soldier’s long-awaited second collection is a capacious, wooly conglomeration of poetry and prose… . [She] approaches the deep sorrows and disappointments of our moment with disarming candor.”–Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub

”[We] is a brilliantly nuanced record of injustice, survival, and a history that will not be ignored.”–Ronnie K. Stephens, Chicago Review of Books

“A lyrical meditation on memory and loss.”–Kirkus Reviews

“Layli Long Soldier’s communal, revelatory, intimate collection vibrates with visual and poetic meaning. We, or Wé, is an offering to the best within us all.”–Louise Erdrich

“With brilliant linguistic acrobatics and in kinship with family and community, the lyric-essay-artwork-memoir We … is one of the most generous and open reading experiences I have yet encountered. One can only have gratitude for language’s possibilities in the hands of this extraordinary poet.”–Claudia Rankine

“We is an astonishing anti-treatise treatise brim with tenderness, community, and collaboration… . Language is Long Soldier’s reparative instrument, and she, our guiding constellation to turn to as we navigate the turbulent past and present… . This is a sky-breaking magnum opus.”–Diana Khoi Nguyen

“In We (Wé), Layli Long Soldier leads us across her poetry, storytelling, and visual artwork, creating vivid and captivating imagery, both on the page and within our imaginations… . I felt my life reflected as a mother, a Lakota woman, a tribal and US citizen, a human, and a relative.”–Dyani White Hawk

Layli Long Soldier is a poet, artist, and citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She is the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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