Bolano’s works are a wash of multiplicities. Art and literature are woven into crime and atrocity; literary culture is a whore to its own vainity; vanity is a strung out pimp in the middle of a thunderstorm; the story of person a: poet, custodian, radical transvestite briefly intersects with and is

Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Chance, Cool, Dark, Death, Enigmatic, Epic, Erotic, Expansive, Experimental, Funny, Gritty, Grotesque, Hypnotic, Loose, Overflowing, Parody, Pathos, Political, Rebel, Saturated, Social revolution, Sophisticated, Spectral, Sublime, Tragic, Violent, Visceral

A master yarn-spinner, he is unabashedly, joyously (but never aggressively) descriptive, with muscular prose animated by a muscular sense of poetry. Not only are his stories in which things actually *happen* -- ships jumped, pot grown, gloryholes visited, bear traps sprung, dirt secreted by the

Baroque, Expansive, Grand, Low realism

Louise Erdrich is one of those multifaceted writers who can deftly maneuver the demands of poet, novelist and critic. Succeeding in both critically and popularly in each category, her work has established her at the forefront of the "Native American Renaissance". Accordingly, many have compared he

Atmospheric, Conceptual, Epic, Expansive, Feminine, Feminism, Feminist, Figurative, Flux, Grand, Illusive, Layered, Native american fiction, Native american poetry, Organic, Post-colonialism, Sensual, Serene, Spiritual, Tribal

One of the most important Native American writers of the post-1968 generation, James Welch, to a large degree, established a genre. What he gave us was Native American Literature: literature unmistakably about Indian subjects, written by an Indian writer. His characters were never drawn from sensa

Clean, Clever, Deconstructive, Epic, Expansive, Figurative, Illusive, Lyrical, Mythic, Native american fiction, Native american poetry, Pioneering, Post-colonialism, Sincere, Spiritual, Sublime, Tragic, Tribal