"""Writing with the rage of a conscience that is simultaneously historical and urgent, Louis stands as one of those rare voices we must carry with us into the future."" --David St. John ""It is [Louis's] singular character and talent to accord no slack i"
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Louis' third solo collection since 1992 finds him slightly changed again, into something of a Plains Indian Allen Ginsberg. His themes are still the defeated history and the marginalized presence of his people, his material is still largely autobiographical. This time out, the bitterness his subjects arouse is, more than before, balanced and sometimes overmastered by humor--a sarcastic, politically grudge-bearing, angry, fatalistic humor, to be sure, but funny. Here we have, a{ } la Ginsberg's vision of Whitman in the supermarket, "Jack Kerouac in Computer Hell" and Crazy Horse, challenged by a drunken skinhead, deciding "there was no need / to proceed procedurally" and walking away. Here, too, with less hilarity, we have real, hallucinatory sickness, recounted in the titular prose poem with convincing "I contain multitudes" personalism. Louis continues to be the most accessible, compelling Indian poet of his now middle-aged generation. Ray Olson
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Powerful, startling Native American poetry,
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This review is from: Vortex of Indian Fevers (Paperback)
I got this book and continue to read and re-read it. For my money, there's nobody writing poems in this country with the honesty of Adrian Louis. He's an incredible talent, far removed from the whining, snot-nosed poets of academia.
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- Another Place: An Ecocritical Study of Selected Western American Poets by Andrew Elkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Blood Thirsty Savages by Adrian C. Louis in Back Matter
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