RaveThe Georgia ReviewThe nature and effect of language is, in multiple senses, at the heart of the project of Whereas, but so, too, is the space in which poetic language is contained or held. Long Soldier is one of the most sensitive and adroit contemporary shapers of the printed map of poetry on the page ... In attending to the sonic and visual stirring of grass, Long Soldier’s poetry ingathers the senses of 'tók?a?’a?,' a Lakota word meaning—among other things not knowable by the 'casual American'—'to lose, to suffer loss, to be gone, lost.'
