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Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems (Western Literature Series)
Adrian C. Louis
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Description for Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems (Western Literature Series)
Paperback. The world of American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain - from the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, to the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, it explores through humour, anger and compassion, the bleak interior world of loss, illness and despair. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 132.
The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain—the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair. Louis’s poems bring us to a place where ghosts hitchhike and the traditional pow-wow becomes an affirmation of bitter survival, where the lives of the young end too often in acts of meaningless self-destruction, and where his own existence becomes a daily battle with his cherished wife’s decline into the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease. Louis is a writer of extraordinary ... Read more
The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain—the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair. Louis’s poems bring us to a place where ghosts hitchhike and the traditional pow-wow becomes an affirmation of bitter survival, where the lives of the young end too often in acts of meaningless self-destruction, and where his own existence becomes a daily battle with his cherished wife’s decline into the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease. Louis is a writer of extraordinary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874173024
SKU
V9780874173024
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About Adrian C. Louis
Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. He teaches at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has numerous books of poetry and stories and awards to his credit.
Reviews for Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems (Western Literature Series)
Louis weaves with symbolism and attacks with truth. Pure rage and agony are his tools."" —Western American Literature, Winter 2000 ""Ceremonies of the Damned is like a quiet voice in the night."" —World Literature Today, Summer 1998 ""Adrian Louis writes of this world in the only way a truly brave man can—with ferocious honesty, anger, humor and unrelenting ... Read more