Sherman Alexie. WAR DANCES. Grove, 2009.
Found this copy of Alexie's award-winning WAR DANCES at a thrift store. One of my most enjoyable and rewarding reads in years. A mixture of poems, prose poems, and longer short stories. "Fearful Symmetry" caught my eye as it has been a month of William Blake references. It starts out as a writer, attempting a screenplay of a CNF book by the same title about the first time white people used an "escape" fire or backfire to fight a wildfire in Washington State and morphs into a story about writer's block, crossword puzzle obsessives (crazies), and learning to recognize and read the metaphors we live within, the escape fires we set for ourselves.
BLASPHEMY has been waiting on my shelf for six or seven years. It comes down now. I have read and enjoyed, years ago, his THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FIST FIGHT IN HEAVEN (2010) and YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME. Ooops. Found two waiting beside these. THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD. & RESERVATION BLUES.
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