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.
Adrian C. Louis's poems, wrested from the harsh experience of the Rez and his own lonely struggle with his wife's illness, reveal life's darker truths.
