Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems
The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of painthe 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 courage and skill, and these powerful, moving poems, wrested from the harsh experience of the Rez and his own lonely struggle with a merciless illness, will awe their readers with their brilliance and desperate humanity.
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Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems
The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of painthe 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 courage and skill, and these powerful, moving poems, wrested from the harsh experience of the Rez and his own lonely struggle with a merciless illness, will awe their readers with their brilliance and desperate humanity.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780874173024 |
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Publisher: | University of Nevada Press |
Publication date: | 09/01/1997 |
Series: | Western Literature and Fiction Series |
Pages: | 80 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d) |
Age Range: | 3 Months to 18 Years |
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