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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Alexie, Sherman, 1966- Summer of black widows. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Hanging Loose Press, c1996 (OCoLC)681869368 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sherman Alexie |
| ISBN: | 1882413342 9781882413348 1882413350 9781882413355 9781417616473 1417616474 |
| OCLC Number: | 35025700 |
| Description: | 139 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | After the first lightning -- The summer of black widows -- Defending Walt Whitman -- Mistranslation of a traditional Spokane Indian song -- Glossary of a powwow -- The first and last ghost dance of Lester FallsApart -- That place where ghosts of salmon jump -- Song of ourself -- Why we play basketball -- Haibun -- Grandmother, porcupine, traffic -- Totem sonnets -- When I was my father I sang love songs to my son -- Father and farther -- Diabetes -- Death of the landlord -- Elegies -- Fire as verb and noun -- Sonnet: tattoo tears -- Sister fire, brother smoke The lover of maps -- How we learn to say "mouth" and "hand" and "small of back" -- Marriage -- Grand entry -- Drum as love, fear, and prayer -- Last will and testament -- Harmful jazz -- Owl dancing with Fred Astaire -- Airplane -- Prayer animals -- How to remodel the interior of a Catholic church -- Capital punishment -- Tourists -- How to write the great American Indian novel -- The exaggeration of despair -- The powwow at the end of the world -- What we notice, what we miss The Sasquatch poems -- Introduction to Western civilization -- After the trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994 -- Inside Dachau -- Reading Harvey Shapiro's poetry while standing in line to see Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 -- Things (for an Indian) to do in New York (City) -- Going to the movies with Geronimo's wife -- The museum of tolerance -- Airplane, airport, airline, air in the bottom of the ninth inning -- Bob's Coney Island. |
| Responsibility: | Sherman Alexie. |
Abstract:
Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.
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