Alexie, Sherman - Kenneth Lincoln (essay date 2000)
Kenneth Lincoln (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Lincoln, Kenneth. “Modern Shamans: Seer, Shaman, Clown.” In Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry 1890-1999, pp. 267-74. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Lincoln examines Alexie's place among Native American writers of his generation.]
Alexie is not writing the intellectualized masturbation that passes for so much of today's poetry. He is a singer, a shaman, a healer, a virtual Freddy Fender saying, “Hey baby, que paso? I thought I was your only vato.”
Adrian C. Louis, Foreword to Old Shirts & New Skins
But I haven't met an Indian writer out there who isn't arrogant—or a writer in general who isn't arrogant. … I don't pretend I'm not.
Sherman Alexie, Indian Artist, Spring 1998
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