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In 1992, Hanging Loose Press introduced the poetry of Sherman Alexie. His first collection, The Business of Fancydancing, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time, " wrote reviewer James R. Kincaid. Since then, Alexie's poems, stories and novels have brought him many honors and an international following of readers.

A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, now living in Seattle, Alexie covers a territory that starts with the minute details of reservation life and reaches out to encompass the world in all its variety.

"Sherman Alexie's recent success as a novelist overshadows the fact that he is one of the best young poets...

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Overview

In 1992, Hanging Loose Press introduced the poetry of Sherman Alexie. His first collection, The Business of Fancydancing, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time, " wrote reviewer James R. Kincaid. Since then, Alexie's poems, stories and novels have brought him many honors and an international following of readers.

A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, now living in Seattle, Alexie covers a territory that starts with the minute details of reservation life and reaches out to encompass the world in all its variety.

"Sherman Alexie's recent success as a novelist overshadows the fact that he is one of the best young poets writing in America today... his poems resonate with brutal honesty and tie the reader into knots. (This book) proves Alexie is a poet first and a fiction writer second."

."..an impressive mosaic of emotions and subjects, deployed with wit, intelligence and haunting insights... Alexie's vision is Whitmanic in his all-embracing love of humanity."

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Publishers Weekly
For prolific poet and novelist Alexie (First Indian on the Moon), "Indian" culture is not a frozen set-piece, but a field of vital, co-mingling influences that includes playing basketball, watching for Sasquatch or admiring Fred Astaire. His cultural pantheon is apparent in the sixth of seven "Totem Sonnets": "Lenny/ Edgar Bearchild/ Holden Caulfield/ Tess// The Misfit/ Sula/ Mazie/ Tayo// Cacciato/ Cecelina Capture/ Hamlet/ Jim Loney// Daredevil/ The Incredible Hulk." Moving among sites of personal and historical tragedy, as well as joy (the Spokane reservation in Washington State, Brooklyn's F Train, Dachau), the first-person speaker of these poems is shadowed by remembrance and loss: "On the top of Wellpinit mountain, I watch for fires, listen to a radio powered by the ghosts of 1,000 horses, shot by the United States Cavalry a century ago, last week, yesterday." While lacking the raffish elegance of Frank O'Hara (though engaging elegies for James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are included here) and with the acknowledged influence of Ted Berrigan, Alexie, at his best, opens to us the complexity and contradiction of a contemporary multicultural identity. Repeatedly invoking the liar paradox (perhaps because "Indians... don't believe in autobiography"), Alexie poses a question for all of us: "Do these confused prayers mean/ we'll live on another reservation/ in that country called Heaven?" (Oct.)
Library Journal
The seven sections of poet/novelist Alexie's (Indian Killer, LJ 8/96) new collection are intensely elegiac, documenting ravages to a Native American identityand, one finally feels, to contemporary American identity itself. Alexie's search for meaning gives "tragic features" of "indigenous people" a sense of nobility as they struggle to maintain dignity in a world given over to hatred of the authentic. Intergenerational native dances, powwow, drum music (entertainment and prayer), and traditional song provide somber rhythm to correlate places Alexie visits with "secrets" of Native American culture always in the back of his mind. "The reservation waits for no one," Alexie concludes. "Acre by acre, it roars past history." The legacy of American history is difficult. This worthy poetry makes an important contribution to coming to terms with it.Frank Allen, North Hampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781882413348
  • Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/1996
  • Pages: 140
  • Sales rank: 359,857
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, essays and films have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published in 1992. SMOKE SIGNALS, the film he adapted from one of his short stories and co-produced, enlarged his audience still further. Alexie's awards include the Stranger Genius Award in Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature in Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature as well as honors and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, and a citation as "One of 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40" from Granta magazine. An enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie lives in Seattle with his wife and sons.

Table of Contents

After the First Lightning 11
The Summer of Black Widows 12
Defending Walt Whitman 14
Mistranslation of a Traditional Spokane Indian Song 16
Glossary of a Powwow 17
The First and Last Ghost Dance of Lester FallsApart 18
That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump 19
Song of Ourself 20
Why We Play Basketball 21
Haibun 29
Grandmother, Porcupine, Traffic 31
Totem Sonnets 32
When I Was My Father I Sang Love Songs to My Son 39
Father and Farther 40
Diabetes 44
Death of the Landlord 45
Elegies 49
Fire as Verb and Noun 52
Sonnet: Tattoo Tears 56
Sister Fire, Brother Smoke 60
The Lover of Maps 63
How We Learn to Say "Mouth" and "Hand" and "Small of Back" 64
Marriage 65
Grand Entry 66
Drum as Love, Fear, and Prayer 68
Last Will and Testament 73
Harmful Jazz 77
Owl Dancing with Fred Astaire 78
Airplane 81
Prayer Animals 84
How to Remodel the Interior of a Catholic Church 85
Capital Punishment 86
Tourists 91
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel 94
The Exaggeration of Despair 96
The Powwow at the End of the World 98
What We Notice, What We Miss 99
The Sasquatch Poems 103
Introduction to Western Civilization 113
After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994 114
Inside Dachau 117
Reading Harvey Shapiro's Poetry While Standing in Line to See Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 123
Things (for an Indian) to do in New York (City) 124
Going to the Movies with Geronimo's Wife 131
The Museum of Tolerance 133
Airplane, Airport, Airline, Air in the Bottom of the Ninth Inning 134
Bob's Coney Island 138

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