Adrian C. Louis
Author of Skins
About the Author
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.
Works by Adrian C. Louis
Days of Obsidian Days of Grace: Selected Poetry and Prose by Four Native American Writers (1994) — Author — 9 copies
Skull Dance 1 copy
Deer Dreams 1 copy
Associated Works
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 376 copies, 4 reviews
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Contributor — 73 copies
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- Brown University
- Occupations
- professor
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- Minnesota State University
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from Wabuska
"I became a citizen of my heart
& turned as gray as the lie
that at any day I could scrape
all the asinine cliches & excuses
from my old tongue, cook them
down in a silver spoon, resurrect
my wings & magically flap back
to the ghost clouds of childhood."
from Savage Sunsets
"I smoke
& smoke & smoke in darkness
but the minor voodoo of cigarette
coals cannot put me in accord
with the sun undone."
"I became a citizen of my heart
& turned as gray as the lie
that at any day I could scrape
all the asinine cliches & excuses
from my old tongue, cook them
down in a silver spoon, resurrect
my wings & magically flap back
to the ghost clouds of childhood."
from Savage Sunsets
"I smoke
& smoke & smoke in darkness
but the minor voodoo of cigarette
coals cannot put me in accord
with the sun undone."
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