For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet Amorak Huey joins me to discuss Layli Long Soldier’s 2017 poetry collection, Whereas. In our conversation, we talked about the way the poems confront language, what language means in the context of forced assimilation, and how the poems engage with both history and contemporary reality.

(Recorded March 26, 2024)

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Show Notes:

• Amorak Huey
• Purchase Whereas: Gathering Volumes (Parisburg, OH) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Purchase Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
• Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans
• Between the Covers - Layli Long Soldier : Whereas
• R. F. Kuang - Babel

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo