Prose from Poetry Magazine

Quilts

BY Layli Long Soldier

Originally Published: June 01, 2018
Photo of Layli Long Soldier's art in a gallery. One black star shape, one black, white, red, and yellow star shape.
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Installation view, Mosquitoes and Obligations, 2017, by Layli Long Soldier.

Close-up of Layli Long Soldier's piece, <em>Mosquitoes</em>. Diamond shapes with mosquito figures are arranged into a star shape.
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Mosquitoes (detail), 2017, by Layli Long Soldier.

A close-up of Layli Long Soldier's piece, <em>Obligations</em>. Diamonds with buffalo and hoof shapes, as well as the words "As we," "As I," and "When I" are arranged into a star shape.
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Obligations (detail), 2017, by Layli Long Soldier.

Close-up of Layli Long Soldier's piece, <em>Obligations</em>. Diamond shapes with hoof outlines and the words "forms," "the terms," "men, "women," "the language," and "family member" are sewn together.
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Obligations (detail), 2017, by Layli Long Soldier.

Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; ...

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