num_pages: 94
description: Poetry. Native American Studies. Amongst the poems and prose of OLD SHIRTS &amp; NEW SKINS appear illustrations by Elizabeth Woody, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. In the best tradition of confronting American reality and exacting vision and meaning from it, Sherman Alexie chooses to use poetic power. His vision is an amazing celebration of endurance, intimacy, love, and creative insight; finally, it is a victory that can be known only by a people who refuse to submit to the thieves, liars, and killers that have made them suffer tremendous loss and pain. "Like the woman who pours her life into a stew of survival, Sherman Alexie has created a meal, not for a reader to consume but for a reader to be changed by. Survival is being documented, changes measured"--Linda Hogan.
language: English
title: Old Shirts & New Skins
titlecomplete: Old Shirts & New Skins
genres: Native Americans, Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 251
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center