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Books by Sherman Alexie

What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
Face
One stick song
Summer of Black Widows
FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON
THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING
THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING: THE SCREENPLAY

WHAT CRITICS HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT SHERMAN ALEXIE’S POETRY:

The Business of Fancydancing

“So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and how we might be….Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyrical voices of our time.”
–James R. Kincaid, The New York Times Book Review

First Indian on the Moon

“A young writer who is taking the literary world by storm…a superb chronicler of the Native American experience…an overwhelmingly exciting voice…he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly, and straight to the heart.” –Chris Fatz, The Nation

“There is enough love, heartbreak, and ironic intelligence in this small book to fill an encyclopedia….Strong medicine&emdash;but a medicine needed by us all.” –Joseph Bruchac

The Summer of Black Widows

Sherman Alexie’s recent success as a novelist overshadows the fact that he is one of the best young poets writing in America today….[This book] proves Alexie is a poet first and a fiction writer second.” –Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review

“An impressive mosaic of emotions and subjects, deployed with wit, intelligence and haunting insights….Alexie’s vision is Whitmanic in all his embracing love of humanity.” –Philadelphia Inquirer

What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
Poetry ISBN: 978-1934909-32-4 (pbk.) $19.00

ISBN: 978-1-934909-379 (hardcover) $29.00

What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie’s poetry career started on a high note in his early twenties and has continued to rise. His first book, The Business of Fancydancing (Hanging Loose Press, 1992) was reviewed on the front cover of The New York Times Book Review: “Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyric voices of our time,” the reviewer wrote. Alexie had already won a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a stream of other awards has followed – the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, the American Library Association Odyssey Award, to name a few-culminating with a National Book Award for his superb novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He has written poetry, novels, short stories, screenplays – 24 books to date – and that doesn’t include a huge amount of literary and political journalism. He is a platform performer of enormous popularity. For all his success in every literary form he has tried, Alexie defines himself first and foremost as a poet. This book will show you why
Face
Poetry & Short Prose, 160 pages

paper, ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6, $18.00

cloth, ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3, $28.00

Face

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 by Hanging Loose 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 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the -Boston GlobeHorn Book Award , the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award from Washington State University, the PEN/Malamud Award from PEN/Faulkner Foundation, as well as honors and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation. An enrolled Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, Alexie lives in Seattle with his wife and sons.

“Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyric voices of our time.”
         —The New York Times Book Review

One stick song
Poetry & Short Prose , 96 pages

978-1-882413-76-8 (pbk.) $18

978-1-882413-77-5 (cloth) $25

ONE STICK SONG

Sherman Alexie

One Stick Song is new collection of poems and short prose by Sherman Alexie. Alexie’s poems, fiction and essays 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 honors include awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission, 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 son.
THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS
Poetry, 139 pages

978-1-882413-34-8 (pbk.) $18.00

978-1-882413-35-5 (cloth) $27.00

THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS

Sherman Alexie

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. The Summer of Black Widows presents poetry which shows Mr. Alexie’s work continues to grow in power, complexity and vision.
FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON
Poetry and Prose, 116 pages

978-1-882413-02-7 (pbk.) $18.00

978-1-882413-03-4 (cloth) $27.00

FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON

Sherman Alexie

Our second compelling collection of his stories and poems.

“A young writer who is taking the literary world by storm. . . .a superb chronicler of the Native American experience. . . .an overwhelmingly exciting voice. . .he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly and straight to the heart.”

–Chris Faatz, The Nation

“It’s easy to see why his work has garnered so much attention. . . . Alexie renews the nearly forgotten sense of language equaling power.”

–Publishers Weekly

“I found myself holding my breath as I raced from poem to poem. . . .There is enough love, heartbreak, and ironic intelligence in this small book to fill an encyclopedia…. Strong medicine–but a medicine needed by us all.”

–Joseph Bruchac, Small Press

“Sharp-edged, high-impact poems, prose poems, mini-essays, and stories…This moving work celebrates something that can’t be killed. . . .”

–Library Journal

THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING
Poetry and Prose, 84 pages

978-0-914610-00-7 (pbk.) $18.00

978-0-914610-24-2 (cloth) $28.00

THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING

Sherman Alexie

The book that started all the excitement, now in its eighth printing!

“One of the most vital of the younger writers. . . .Watch this guy. He’s making myth.”

–Joy Harjo.

“Displays a mastery of language, a breadth of vision, and an astonishing range of voice and emotion.”

–Studies in American Indian Literature.

“The high spirit of Crazy Horse. . .is alive in this book and dances powerfully.”

–American Book Review.

“Tremendous pain and anger, but there is also love, humor and plenty of irony. . . recommended for literature collections in all types of libraries.”

–Library Journal.

THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING: THE SCREENPLAY
978-1-913236-27-7 (pbk.)$16.

978-1-931236-28-7 (hc)$24

THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING: THE SCREENPLAY

Sherman Alexie

Full screenplay, photos, special introduction, from the new movie by the maker of Smoker Signals, author of The Toughest Indian in the World, One Stick Song and other highly regarded books.