Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems

by Adrian C. Louis and Cleo Qian

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874173027
• ISBN13: 9780874173024
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 9.0"