Sherman Alexie writes poetry and prose. His most recent book is You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, a memoir. His first collection, The Business of Fancydancing, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. First published by Hanging Loose Press in 1987, he’s published seven books with them, including What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned. An enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, he lives with his family in Seattle.
What critics have written about Sherman Alexie’s poetry:
The Business of Fancydancing
“So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and how we might be….Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyrical voices of our time.”
–James R. Kincaid, The New York Times Book Review
First Indian on the Moon
“A young writer who is taking the literary world by storm…a superb chronicler of the Native American experience…an overwhelmingly exciting voice…he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly, and straight to the heart.” –Chris Fatz, The Nation
“There is enough love, heartbreak, and ironic intelligence in this small book to fill an encyclopedia….Strong medicine&emdash;but a medicine needed by us all.” –Joseph Bruchac
The Summer of Black Widows
Sherman Alexie’s recent success as a novelist overshadows the fact that he is one of the best young poets writing in America today….[This book] proves Alexie is a poet first and a fiction writer second.” –Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review
“An impressive mosaic of emotions and subjects, deployed with wit, intelligence and haunting insights….Alexie’s vision is Whitmanic in all his embracing love of humanity.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
