The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie.

Author/creator Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoBrooklyn, N.Y. : Hanging Loose Press, ©1996.
Description139 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Spokane Indians--Poetry.
Indians of North America--Poetry.

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
Contents 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
Contents 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.
LCCN 96009822
ISBN1882413342 (pbk.)
ISBN9781882413348 (pbk.)
ISBN1882413350
ISBN9781882413355
ISBN9781417616473
ISBN1417616474

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3551.L35774 S86 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold