Böcker av Adrian C. Louis

Skins is Adrian C. Louis's realistic novel of life on Pine Ridge Reservation, the story of two brothers--one a rez cop, the other an alcoholic--and their relationship with each other, with their people, with their environment.

Lyman ""Bean"" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, sweat-lodge ceremonies, and political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt Rushmore.

"In ELECTRIC SNAKES, Adrian C. Louis''s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John''s, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom."—From the Editor

In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheimers, revealing a writer at his peak and a poet unafraid to take chances. There is no room for misinterpretation; his diction is as clear-cut as a logged forest.

The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain. 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 wife's decline into Alzheimer's disease.