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
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
Poetry & Short Prose, 160 pages
paper, ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6, $18.00
cloth, ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3, $28.00
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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
Poetry & Short Prose , 96 pages
978-1-882413-76-8 (pbk.) $18
978-1-882413-77-5 (cloth) $25
ONE STICK SONG
Sherman Alexie
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
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
“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
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
“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.