First Indian on the Moon

by Alexie, Sherman

• ISBN13: 9781882413027
• ISBN10: 1882413024
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Summary

Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section "Influences": "where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I'm going/--Lucille Clifton". The stories and poems of Sherman Alexie, an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpint, Washington, have appeared widely, in such publications as Caliban, Esquire, The World, Beloit Poetry Journal, Red Dirt, Zyzzyva and Story. Alexie has won a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship, and lives in Spokane. "These elegiac poems and stories will break your heart. Watch this guy. He's making myth"--Joy Harjo.

Table of Contents

Influences	p. 9
Year of the Indian	p. 11
Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians	p. 15
Reservation Drive-In	p. 16
Genetics	p. 21
Fire Storm	p. 23
Family Cookbook	p. 29
Occupational Hazards	p. 31
A Twelve-Step Treatment Program	p. 33
The Alcoholic Love Poems	p. 36
A Reservation Table of the Elements	p. 38
Invitation	p. 42
Reservation Mathematics	p. 43
House(fires)	p. 45
Freaks	p. 49
Before We Knew About Mirrors	p. 50
I Would Steal Horses	p. 55
Tiny Treaties	p. 56
Spontaneous Combustion	p. 58
Apologies	p. 59
Seven Love Songs Which Include the Collected History of the United States of America	p. 62
Watching Friends Sleep	p. 66
Blankets	p. 68
Gravity	p. 69
Collect Calls	p. 70
Vision: From the Drum's Interior	p. 73
How to Obtain Eagle Feathers for Religious Use	p. 75
On the Amtrak From Boston to New York City	p. 79
The Game Between the Jews and the Indians is Tied Going into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning	p. 80
Because I Was in New York City Once and Have Since Become an Expert	p. 81
The Native American Broadcasting System	p. 83
Split Decisions	p. 88
Citizens	p. 92
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay	p. 94
Rediscovering America	p. 95
Captivity	p. 98
My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys	p. 102
Song	p. 107
All I Wanted to Do Was Dance	p. 110
Running From the Mafia	p. 111
Billy Jack	p. 113
First Indian on the Moon	p. 116
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