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From the Publisher: In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: "Mr. Alexie's is...

"One of the most vital of the younger writers....Watch this guy. He's making myth." -- Joy Harjo. "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.

The Virtuosity and exuberance found in National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie's own work characterizes his selections for The Best American Poetry-2015. Alexie arrived in force with his collection of poems The Business of Fancydancing in 1992, and here he has chosen poems that are without exception arresting and bold. The 2015 edition showcases some of our leading luminaries and introduces a number of outstanding younger poets. Series editor David...

Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle had taken different paths before they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college in Seattle. One is now a successful and openly gay poet; the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again sixteeen years later.

Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.

Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.

The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from...

A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.

“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
 In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce...

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, was born with a variety of medical problems. Determined to receive a good education, he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. There, the only other Indian is the...