The Summer of Black Widows - Softcover

Alexie, Sherman

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9781882413348: The Summer of Black Widows

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882413342 ISBN 13: 9781882413348

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, 1996

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Poetry. Native American Studies. THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS presents poetry that has continued to grow in power, complexity, and vision. According to reviewer James R. Kincaid, "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time", and the many honors and an international following of readers from his poems, stories, and novels proves the claim. Chris Faatz from The Nation agrees, calling Alexie "a young writer who is taking the literary world by storm...a superb chronicler of the Native American experience...he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly and straight to the heart."

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

After The First Lightning
After The Trial Of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994
Airplane
Airplane, Airport, Airline, Air In The Bottom Of The Ninth
Bob's Coney Island
Capital Punishment
Death Of The Landlord
Defending Walt Whitman
Diabetes
Drum As Love, Fear, And Prayer
Elegies
The Exaggeration Of Despair
Father And Farther
Fire As Verb And Noun
The First And Last Ghost Dance Of Lester Fallsapart
Glossary Of A Powwow
Going To The Movies With Geronimo's Wife
Grand Entry
Grandmother, Porcupine, Traffic
Haibun
Harmful Jazz
How To Remodel The Interior Of A Catholic Church
How To Write The Great American Indian Novel
How We Learn To Say Mouth And Hand And Small Of Back
Inside Dachau: 1. Big Lies, Small Lies
Introduction To Western Civilization
Last Will And Testament
The Lover Of Maps
Marriage
Mistranslation Of A Traditional Spokane Indian Song
The Museum Of Tolerance
Owl Dancing With Fred Astaire
The Powwow At The End Of The World
Prayer Animals
Reading Harvey Shapiro's Poetry While Standing In Line
The Sasquatch Poems
Sister Fire, Brother Smoke
Song Of Ourself
Sonnet: Tattoo Tears
The Summer Of Black Widows
That Place Where Ghosts Of Salmon Jump
Totems
Tourists: 1. James Dean
Tourists: 2. Janis Joplin
Tourists: 3. Marilyn Monroe
What We Notice, What We Miss
When I Was My Father I Sang Love Songs To My Son
Why We Play Basketball
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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