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Author Louis, Adrian C.

Title Savage sunsets / Adrian C. Louis.

Imprint Albuquerque, N.M. : West End Press, ©2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  811.54 L929s 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First print edition.
Description 86 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Poems"--Cover.
Contents Archeology -- Wabuska -- Indian thighs -- House of spirits -- Rockabilly blues -- White lies -- Coyote -- In the colony -- Tequila sunrise -- Wheels -- Sagave sunsets -- Nebraska scarlet fever -- Estéban -- Degrees of drought -- Black leather -- Sun/dance/song -- Red-headed devils -- Blue fog -- Cloudlessness -- El día de los muertos -- The tattered flags of the four directions -- Love the distant roar -- Cowboys & -- Brother bear -- Señor Skull's parade -- Respite -- At Sioux Monument -- Black out -- Sunset at the Indian cemetery -- Mourning log -- Horse academy -- The late night movie in my small American brain -- My bosses are heifers -- A fragile chant of holy air -- Avoiding harmonic convergence in Sioux Falls, South Dakota -- Oppression invocation -- Flag song -- Another day in the kingdom -- Professional development plan -- I thought I saw Dick Cheney chasing a bus in Minneapolis -- Nativity -- Tollefson's rake -- Mantle -- The resurrection of Elvis -- Arcane airs on Phillip Ave. -- The warpath -- Moonlight ranch: 1965 -- Approximate haiku, 1980 -- June 1876, Montana -- The wart of Satan -- Horsehide -- Arcadia -- The arc of it all -- Arc of the coven -- Ghost road -- Dark light -- Indian cowgirl in space -- Thunder snow -- The menu -- The end of the trail is a beginning of the trail -- About the author.
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 Alzheimer's.
Subject Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- Poetry.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Poetry.
Spouses -- Death -- Poetry.
Paiute Indians -- Poetry.
South Dakota -- Poetry.
Minnesota -- Poetry.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00806564
Indians of North America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00969904
Paiute Indians. (OCoLC)fst01051177
Spouses -- Death. (OCoLC)fst01426689
Minnesota. (OCoLC)fst01204560
South Dakota. (OCoLC)fst01204322
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
ISBN 9780982696873 (paperback)
0982696876 (paperback)

 
    
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