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Adrian C. Louis (April 24, 1946 – September 9, 2018) was an American author. Hailing from Nevada, Louis was a member of Lovelock Paiute tribe who lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He has taught at Oglala Lakota College.
As a member of the Lovelock Paiute tribe, writer Adrian C. Louis grew up in Nevada and earned a BA and an MA in creative writing from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Louis’s poetry collections include The Indian Cheap Wine Seance (1974), Fire Water World (1989), Among the Dog Eaters…
Welcome to the website of Adrian C. Louis. Widely anthologized and the author of a dozen books, his poems have been published in many of the leading literary magazines in America including The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New Letters, The Antioch Review, The Nebraska Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Nation, Chicago Review, Chelsea ...
Adrian C. Louis - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. An enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe, Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in northern Nevada.
Louis was Professor of English at the Minnesota State University in Marshall from 1999 to his retirement in 2014. He continues to lurk in the dystopian cornfields of southwestern Minnesota. He has written twelve books of poems and two works of fiction: WILD INDIANS & OTHER CREATURES, short stories, and SKINS, a novel.
Adrian C. Louis. 1946 –. 2018. How do you. sweep a dirt floor? How do you describe. the blue face of death. to a spirit you will. someday dance with? First, a dirt floor. cannot be dirty. Second, her face was. more green than blue, the color of malachite. or a crumpled dollar. bill in a wino's hand. We lived so red. in the corpse blue.
“Over the past ten years, Adrian C. Louis has emerged as one of the most powerful and compelling poets in America. There is an astonishing ferocity of vision and a deep, clarifying wisdom in his truly stunning poetry.
