On the title Electric Snakes, the author states these poems can be "little creatures shot up from the electricity of the computer." The poems in this book are as quick and penetrating as lightning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A half-breed Indian, Adrian C. Louis was born in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. From 1984-97, Louis taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Earlier, he edited four Native newspapers, including The Lakota Times. Louis recently retired as Professor of English at the Minnesota State University in Marshall. He has written fourteen books of poems and two works of fiction: Wild Indians & Other Creatures, short stories, and Skins, a novel. Skins was produced as a feature film in 2002. Louis has won various writing awards, including Pushcart Prizes and writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Foundation. His most recent collection of poems is Random Exorcisms (Pleiades Press, 2016). Website: www.Adrian-C-Louis.com
