The Business OF Fancydancing
Sherman Alexie’s debut. Over 150,000 copies sold! That’s a helluva lot for poetry!
“One of the major lyric voices of our times.” —New York Times Book Review
“Tremendous pain and anger, but there is also love, humor, and plenty of irony…” —Library Journal
“Displays a mastery of language, a breadth of vision, and an astonishing range of voice and emotion.” —Studies in American Indian Literature.
"In an age when many 'Native American' writers publish books that prove their ignorance of the real Indian world, Sherman Alexie paints painfully honest visions of our beautiful and brutal lives" —Adrian C. Louis.
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.” –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
“Sharp-edged, high-impact poems, prose poems, mini-essays, and stories…This moving work celebrates something that can’t be killed…” –Library Journal
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
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