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Books by Adrian Louis
  | | Random Exorcisms Poems (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 2016 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6371-9, ISBN: 0-8071-6371-6 "In his latest collection, Random Exorcisms, Adrian C. Louis writes poems with the rough-edged wit and heart-wrenching sincerity that make him one of the seminal voices in contemporary American poetry. Deeply rooted in Native American traditions and folklore, these poems tackle a broad range of subjects, including Facebook, zombies, horror movies, petty grievances, real grief, and pure political outrage. In a style entirely his own, Loui ..." |
 | | Savage Sunsets (Paperback) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2012 by West End Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9826968-7-3, ISBN: 0-9826968-7-6 "In "Savage Sunsets," he writes candidly about his wife's battle with Alzheimers and how the disease steals away their waning days together." |
 | | Electric Snakes by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2018 by Backwaters Press ISBN-13: 978-1-935218-91-3, ISBN: 1-935218-91-3 "In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John’s, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom. —From the EditorLouis’s rough roads travel from Little Big Horn to Standing Rock, pass bomb trains while: “I’m awakened by American greed / speeding throug ..." |
 | | Logorrhea(1st Edition) Poems by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5178-9, ISBN: 0-8101-5178-2 "Finalist, 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryIn a torrent of rage, love, and irony, Adrian C. Louis explodes all the myths and hypocrisy of Middle America in the twenty-first century. This is how Walt Whitman or Allen Ginsburg might have written about our post-9/11 world--where the realities of poverty on Indian reservations and the plight of Hurricane Katrina victims come in second place to the vagaries of Homeland Security. Fo ..." |
 | | Evil Corn(1st Edition) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2004 by Ellis Press ISBN-13: 978-0-944024-52-2, ISBN: 0-944024-52-1 "This collection of hard-edged prose poems takes no prisoners. Louis walks the tightrope between the sacred and the profane with humor, anger, and compassion, all dispensed with a startling clarity of vision. These poems, written from 1999 to 2004, derive from Louis’s self-imposed exile in the rural deadlands of southwestern Minnesota." |
 | | Vortex of Indian Fevers(1st Edition) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 1995 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5042-3, ISBN: 0-8101-5042-5 ""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" |
 | | The Ghost Dancers A Novel (Western Literature and Fiction Series) by Louis, Adrian C. Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64779-024-0, ISBN: 1-64779-024-7 |
 | | Ceremonies Of The Damned(1st Edition) Poems (Western Literature Series) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-302-4, ISBN: 0-87417-302-7 "The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain—the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair. 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 mean ..." |
 | | Skins A Novel (Paperback) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64779-022-6, ISBN: 1-64779-022-0 "Skins, his best-known work, is now offered by the University of Nevada Press with a new foreword by David Pichaske." |
 | | Ancient Acid Flashes Back(1st Edition) Poems by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-352-9, ISBN: 0-87417-352-3 "Ancient Acid Flashes Back is the true story of one who was there—--and remembers--—through the cloying marijuana haze, around the jagged edges of L.A. cross tops and crystal cranks, on wild windowpane trips, in the sweetness and sweat of tangled young bodies, in the stench of stale vomit and fresh garbage, in the raucous laughter of desperation and fear. In this remarkable collection of poems, Adrian Louis, a member of the Paiute tribe, ..." |
 | | Fire Water World & Among the Dog Eaters by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2014 by Tavern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-36-9, ISBN: 1-935635-36-0 "Poetry. Native American Studies. A single-volume republication of two early full-length collections by Adrian C. Louis that have been out of print for over a decade: Fire Water World (1989) and Among the Dog Eaters (1992). As noted by N. Scott Momaday, "Adrian C. Louis reaches to the core of contemporary Native American life. An equation of anger and survival, of acceptance and defiance brought into delicate balance. It is work of profo ..." |
 | | Shedding Skins(8th Edition) Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies) by Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, Adrian C. Louis, Brings Plenty Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2008 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87013-823-2, ISBN: 0-87013-823-5 " Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from wh ..." |
 | | Stroke Essentials, 1e(1st Edition) by Adrian J. Goldszmidt, Louis R. Caplan, Louis R. Caplna Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2003 by Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-890114-45-9, ISBN: 1-890114-45-6 "Christie M. Ballantyne, MD Clinical Director, Section of Atherosclerosis Professor of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Director, ... Press Royal Oak, Michigan Hypertension and Risk Reduction Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. MD, DPhil The Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean ... and Risk Reduction James H. O'Keefe, Jr, MD Director, Preventive Cardiology Mid America Heart Institute Clinical Professor of Medicine ..." |
 | | Skins(Reprint) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Ellis Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-944024-44-7, ISBN: 0-944024-44-0 "SKINS is Adrian C. Louis's realistic novel of life on Pine Ridge Reservation, the story of two brothers--one a rez cop, the other an alcoholic--and their relationship with each other, with their people, with their environment. Chris Eyre's film version of SKINS is scheduled for release by Firstlook Pictures in August 2002. A cloth edition of SKINS was published by Crown in 1995. It is now out of print." |
 | | Bone & Juice(1st Edition) (Triquarterly Books) by Adrian C. Louis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5116-1, ISBN: 0-8101-5116-2 "Adrian C. Louis's largely autobiographical verse is characterized by a bluntness born of self-irony and self-criticism. He attacks his subjects with an emotional engagement that is both tender and honest. Within the context of fallen ideals and lost spirituality among Native Americans, he composes elegies for his mentally disabled wife and describes scenes from "Cowturdville", his name for the town near a reservation where he lived. Mes ..." |
 | | SKINS A NOVEL by Adrian C. Louis Hardcover, Published 1995 by Penguin Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-517-79958-1, ISBN: 0-517-79958-8 |
 | | Off The Path Vol. 2 An Anthology of 21st Century American Indian and Indigenous Writers (Volume 2) by Adrian L. Jawort, Kenneth Dyer Redner, Cinnamon Spear, Bojan Louis, Sterling Holywhite Mountain, Kristiana Kahakuawila, K.M. Harris, Ellen Van Neerven, Bill Wetzel Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2015 by Off The Pass Press Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-9863810-0-3, ISBN: 0-9863810-0-4 "With Kenneth Dyer-Redner; Dana Lone Hill; Bojan Louis; Sterling HolyWhiteMountain; Kristiana Kahakauwila, K.M. Harris Ellen van Neerven; Bill Wetzel; Cinnamon Spear............The indigenous experience is one of vast complexities all too frequently represented by just a select few storytellers. Although we are the descendants of the original inhabitants whose languages,songs, and narratives were first heard across these lands, our voice ..." |
 | | Electric Snakes by Adrian C. Louis 100 Pages, Published 2019 by U Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-2064-6, ISBN: 1-4962-2064-1 ""In ELECTRIC SNAKES, Adrian C. Louis's thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself." |
 | | Archeology. by Adrian C. Louis Pamphlet, 17 Pages, Published 2011 by Tavern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-15-4, ISBN: 1-935635-15-8 "These 8 new poems by the noted poet, story writer, and novelist, Adrian C. Louis, offer a glimpse into an existence that is hard-wired to truth, witness, and the many paradoxes of contemporary American life." |
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