Ceremonies of the Damned

Poems

von Adrian C Louis

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 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.

• ISBN: 9780874173024
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1997
• Größe: 229 x 142 mm
• Verlag: University of Nevada Press