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Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 80
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780874173024
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1997