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In the poem \"\"Necessary Exorcism,\"\" the speaker exorcises himself, more or less, of his grief for his deceased wife. \"\"I made my choice so easily \u0026amp; picked red drama, the joyous pain of it all,\"\" he writes. \"\"Minor Exorcism: 1984\"\" is one of a series of poems that contemplates the memories of small, simple mundanes, like catching a fish, until, \"\"My old heart is thrashing with \/ long-forgotten boyhood joy.\"\" \"\"Dog the Bounty Hunter Blogs\"\" confronts some of the cruel absurdities of reality TV, while \"\"Naked, Midnight, Sober, Facebooking\"\" expels a great many fearful things, including the fear of growing older. 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In “Archaeology”, Louis writes about the Anglo invasion of Indian Country and its loss of Native traditions, language, and history. In “Savage Sunsets”, he writes candidly about his wife’s battle with Alzheimers and how the disease steals away their waning days together. As the sun sets on his wife’s life and on Indian Country, Louis remains stalwart, a bold emissary who has lived to tell.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":55002541195637,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":55002541425013,"sku":"NIN9780982696873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/0982696876.jpg?v=1738984153"},{"product_id":"ghost-dancers-book-adrian-c-louis-9781647790240","title":"The Ghost Dancers","description":"Lyman \"Bean\" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassesing his life.  The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":55055497560437,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":55055497658741,"sku":"NIN9781647790240","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/1647790247.jpg?v=1739484996"},{"product_id":"electric-snakes-book-adrian-c-louis-9781935218913","title":"Electric Snakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e Electric Snakes\u003c\/em\u003e, Adrian C. Louis's thirteenth poetry collection\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eno one is spared his critical eye, including himself. 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Drawing from a half-century of published writing—and including a few previously unpublished pieces—this collection captures the evolution of Louis's voice, worldview, and craft.   Editor David Pichaske, a close friend of Louis in his later years, curates this volume with deep insight into both the public figure and the private man. Selections are arranged chronologically to trace Louis's transformation from a Nevada reservation teenager to a California hippie, a sixties hitchhiker, a Boston academic, a South Dakota reservation journalist, and finally, a Midwestern college professor.   Louis's work immerses readers in reservation life, yet its critique reaches the broadest dimensions of American and human experience. To enrich understanding, the book includes literary reviews, scholarly essays (including one by a noted Polish critic), an interview with Louis, and his own reflections on literature and identity. 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