num_pages: 116
description: 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.
language: English
title: First Indian on the Moon
titlecomplete: First Indian on the Moon
genres: American, Adult, Cultural, Native Americans, Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Literature, Literary Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 694
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Hanging Loose Press