{"product_id":"ceremonies-of-the-damned-adrian-c-louis-9780874173024","title":"Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian C. Louis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0874173027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780874173024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.59w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/1997 pg. 200","brand":"Adrian C. Louis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926710092031,"sku":"9780874173024","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bb61d14d-37bf-4f8a-b5f2-f3c657763ed5.jpg?v=1681084577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ceremonies-of-the-damned-adrian-c-louis-9780874173024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}