Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874173024)

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.

Author: Adrian C. Louis
ISBN-10: 0874173027
ISBN-13: 9780874173024
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.59w x 0.24d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/1997 pg. 200