WHEREAS Poems Viola van de Sandt from the award-winning author of

from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson (A masterpiece - Elizabeth Gilbert)

What happens when you know what's coming

convinced that she’s too pampered to handle the wild

NOTHING can convince her to get into that disgusting pit of seething water

WHEREAS Poems Viola van de Sandt from the award-winning author ofBy: Layli Long Soldier Published by Graywolf Press, 2017 03 07 Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Dont worry, you and your daughter will learn