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WHEREAS. By Layli Long Soldier. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, pp. $, paper. Reviewed by Katie Kane Whereas speaking itself is defiance.-Layli Long Soldier I. In the discourse of law the term whereas signals a recitation of the important context in a formal or contractual document - but it also represents non-binding language. In. At the beginning of the poem, the poet, Layli Long Soldier, explains how a white man taking beer casually joins the discussion about an apology to native people and supports the apology offered by the government. Long Soldier opines that the government partially acknowledges its transgressions but fails to take responsibility for them. “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. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. these smiles, Whereas I have spent my life in unholding. What do you mean by unholding? Whereas asks and since Whereas rarely asks, I am moved to respond, Whereas, I have learned to exist and exist without your formality, saltshakers, plates, cloth. Without the slightest conjunctions to connect me. Without an exchange of. Layli Long Soldier - Whereas - Free download as PDF File .pdf), Text File .txt) or read online for free. The document discusses a woman who saw a news report about a house fire where five children and possibly their father burned.