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Title: One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 1-882413-76-8 Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant satiric perspective on American Indian culture
Comment: "One Stick Song" is a superb blend of poetry and prose by Sherman Alexie. The back cover notes that the author is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, and indeed the main topic of this book is American Indian life and literature. Although Whitman is invoked in one of the pieces ("The American Artificial Limb Company"), I found Alexie's voice in this piece to remind me more of Kurt Vonnegut and George Carlin. The book is a mixture of outrage, wacky humor, and tenderness, with some really cutting satiric elements.
Some of my favorite pieces are as follows. "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me" is an excellent, irony-rich extended prose poem which looks at, among other things, the business and politics of Native American literary production. This piece contains the memorable line, "Poetry = Anger x Imagination." "Open Books" is a satiric poem about poets and poetry itself. In this poem Alexie writes, "Let us now celebrate the lies / that should be true because they tell us so much." "The Mice War" is an unsettling, violent poem that takes place on a reservation landfill. This is just a small sampling of the treasures in "One Stick Song," a book which moves Alexie onto my list of favorite United States poets.
Rating: 5
Summary: in your face reading
Comment: From the very first chapter this collection of poems blew me away. Sherman Alexie provides a raw and gritty insight into the contemporary American Indian ideology. His poems jump to life inside your imagination and seem to not want to die. Alexie helps people of all different backgrounds come to a better understanding of how things are in the real American world of misconceptions about American Indians and their beliefs and customs. He also challenges the way some people may view their own cultural lineage. At times his poems are very jovial and lighthearted, and at other times they are stark and quite sad. This is one of the best books i have ever read. I recomend this book to anyone who wants to see a different side to the way old ideas are challenged in new ways.
Rating: 5
Summary: Most Personal Work to Date
Comment: One Stick Song is Sherman Alexie's most personal work yet. In these poems and stories, he reveals a side of himself that he has never truly exposed before... possibly even to himself. It is obvious that Sherman is finding the deepest parts of his soul in recent years, probably helped along by the birth of his as revealed by the final poem in the book "Sugar Town."
I have read all of Alexie's works to date, and mostly in the order they were written and I have enjoyed reading the growth of this truly great writer.
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Title: The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 0914610007 Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 0802117449 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 1882413024 Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie, Rudolf Steiner ISBN: 1882413342 Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Old Shirts & New Skins (Native American, No 9) by Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Woody, Kenneth Lincoln ISBN: 0935626360 Publisher: Amer Indian Studies Center Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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