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Fire Water World: Poems

Adrian C. Louis

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Description:This tough little book of poems by Adrian C. Louis gives a deep yet hard-edged portrait of certain aspects of contemporary Amerindian life. It also delivers a powerful vision to transform the traps of that life. In "soft whiskey voices," he and a friend talk as they sit,"both of us forty with pony tails / grown down long to our Levi butts." Then casting a reflective eye on the past in the present, he declares: "Yes, there's something about being an Indian / we say as we exit into the warmth / of Hell's secondary nature, / a place we call the Fire Water World." ("Something About Being an Indiaif'). There are many sad drinking poems and much hurt and anger in these verses, yet a forceful directness compels our recognition. Some poems seem directed to his Amerindian brothers and sisters, some to all of us. In 'The First of the Month" he contemplates: "Against my dark void of memories of blood upon blood White Clay, Nebraska explodes with a thousand faces of my drunken race cashing their welfare checks." The language in this book is colloquial and blunt, yet inside a tradition where it cuts and turns on you like a knife in the sun. Sometimes it works for realism and irony: "We wait and wonder and didn't ask why / we sit in our cars drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon." Sometimes it delivers a mythic beauty as in this portrait of "South Dakota Woman": "In your flanks I saw the blood drive / of brood mares. / In your flanks I saw my warrior sons." In this fourth book of poems, Louis contemplates his university life, while now living and working with his brothers and sisters on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. his perspective is important, for while his language is often concrete and direct, it also moves with a magical energy through deep images. In "Sweets for Dancing Bears" he moves from the sharp realism of "Rolling down the sawdust aisles of switchblade tavems" into the "Visionary delights to my stranger's brain" where he asks, "Was it my false fur flaming or the milk tit of rain?" and concludes, "My engines were flooded, the windows were broken, and the bears / those darrin bears were dancing." The book closes on Louis leaving two wino brothers in the bush to face the hail, knowing, "Pain is easier to deal with than spirits." His is an original and needed voice-moving from the death inside the present toward a new day. -- From Independent PublisherWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fire Water World: Poems. To get started finding Fire Water World: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 69

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: West End Press

Release: 1989

ISBN: 0931122511

Description: This tough little book of poems by Adrian C. Louis gives a deep yet hard-edged portrait of certain aspects of contemporary Amerindian life. It also delivers a powerful vision to transform the traps of that life. In "soft whiskey voices," he and a friend talk as they sit,"both of us forty with pony tails / grown down long to our Levi butts." Then casting a reflective eye on the past in the present, he declares: "Yes, there's something about being an Indian / we say as we exit into the warmth / of Hell's secondary nature, / a place we call the Fire Water World." ("Something About Being an Indiaif'). There are many sad drinking poems and much hurt and anger in these verses, yet a forceful directness compels our recognition. Some poems seem directed to his Amerindian brothers and sisters, some to all of us. In 'The First of the Month" he contemplates: "Against my dark void of memories of blood upon blood White Clay, Nebraska explodes with a thousand faces of my drunken race cashing their welfare checks." The language in this book is colloquial and blunt, yet inside a tradition where it cuts and turns on you like a knife in the sun. Sometimes it works for realism and irony: "We wait and wonder and didn't ask why / we sit in our cars drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon." Sometimes it delivers a mythic beauty as in this portrait of "South Dakota Woman": "In your flanks I saw the blood drive / of brood mares. / In your flanks I saw my warrior sons." In this fourth book of poems, Louis contemplates his university life, while now living and working with his brothers and sisters on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. his perspective is important, for while his language is often concrete and direct, it also moves with a magical energy through deep images. In "Sweets for Dancing Bears" he moves from the sharp realism of "Rolling down the sawdust aisles of switchblade tavems" into the "Visionary delights to my stranger's brain" where he asks, "Was it my false fur flaming or the milk tit of rain?" and concludes, "My engines were flooded, the windows were broken, and the bears / those darrin bears were dancing." The book closes on Louis leaving two wino brothers in the bush to face the hail, knowing, "Pain is easier to deal with than spirits." His is an original and needed voice-moving from the death inside the present toward a new day. -- From Independent PublisherWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fire Water World: Poems. To get started finding Fire Water World: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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