Savage Sunsets

by Louis, Adrian C.

• ISBN13: 9780982696873
• ISBN10: 0982696876
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

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. In "Archaeology," Louis writes about the Anglo invasion of Indian Country and its loss of Native traditions, language, and history. In "Savage Sunsets," he writes candidly about his wife's battle with Alzheimers and how the disease steals away their waning days together. As the sun sets on his wife's life and on Indian Country, Louis remains stalwart, a bold emissary who has lived to tell.

Author Biography

Adrian C. Louis is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe in Nevada. He taught at Lakota College on the Pine Ridge reservation and now teaches at Minnesota State University in Marshall. He has written twelve volumes of poetry and two of fiction.

Table of Contents

Archeology	p. 3
Wabuska	p. 4
Indian Thighs	p. 5
House of Spirits	p. 6
Rockabilly Blues	p. 7
White Lies	p. 8
Coyote	p. 9
In The Colony	p. 10
Tequila Sunrise	p. 11
Wheels	p. 12
Savage Sunsets	p. 13
Nebraska Scarlet Fever	p. 14
Estéban	p. 16
Degrees of Drought	p. 17
Black Leather	p. 19
Sun/Dance/Song	p. 20
Red-Headed Devils	p. 21
Blue Fog	p. 23
Cloudlessness	p. 24
El Día de los Muertos	p. 27
The Tattered Flags of the Four Directions	p. 28
Love the Distant Roar	p. 31
Cowboys &	p. 32
Brother Bear	p. 33
Señor Skull's Parade	p. 34
Respite	p. 37
At Sioux Monument	p. 39
Black Out	p. 40
Sunset at the Indian Cemetery	p. 41
Mourning Log	p. 42
Horse Academy	p. 43
The Late Night Movie in My Small American Brain	p. 44
My Bosses Are Heifers	p. 45
A Fragile Chant of Holy Air	p. 46
Avoiding Harmonic Convergence in Sioux Falls, South Dakota	p. 48
Oppression Invocation	p. 53
Flag Song	p. 54
Another Day in the Kingdom	p. 55
Professional Development Plan	p. 56
I Thought I Saw Dick Cheney Chasing a Bus in Minneapolis	p. 57
Nativity	p. 58
Tollefson's Rake	p. 59
Mantle	p. 61
The Resurrection of Elvis	p. 62
Arcane Airs on Phillips Ave.	p. 63
The Warpath	p. 64
Moonlight Ranch: 1965	p. 66
Approximate Haiku, 1980	p. 67
June 1876, Montana	p. 68
The Wart of Satan	p. 69
Horsehide	p. 72
Arcadia	p. 73
The Arc of It All	p. 74
Arc of the Coven	p. 75
Ghost Road	p. 76
Dark Light	p. 77
Indian Cowgirl in Space	p. 78
Thunder Snow	p. 79
The Menu	p. 80
The End of the Trail Is a Beginning of the Trail	p. 83
About the Author	p. 86
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