- Hardcover: 159 pages
- Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr (April 15 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1931236712
- ISBN-13: 978-1931236713
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #544,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.6 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
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confident, eye-opening and sharp as hell, Sep 11 2009
By C. O. Aptowicz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Face (Paperback)
There has always been something disarmingly grounded about Sherman Alexie's utterly enjoyable poetry. From the first poem til the last in any of his collections, Alexie invites the reader to walk beside him as an equal. Whether he is exploring his own past, his country's political present or his fevered visions of the future, Alexie flips over the subject as many times as it takes to showcase all the sides and isn't afraid to use every tool he's got."Face," Alexie's latest collection of poetry, absolutely continues this tradition, with challenging, emotionally honest work that is daring, and funny, and human. As a writer, I am constantly impressed by how subtly the poems can change -- starting out firmly anchored in one perspective, and just as the reader begins to understand where things are going, Alexie flips on light within the poem to show you what even he didn't know was hidden.
And although Alexie has published over a dozen poetry books previously (as well as a half dozen books of fiction and several screenplays), he still approaches the page with a fantastic sense of play and wonder. I always enjoy how in his books fresh takes at form poetry rub shoulders with narrative prose poems which sink into the couch with clever and devasting free verse. In this book, Alexie experiments with the use of footnotes -- allowing the reader to explore the same text several times with increasingly levels of information, which has an effect that is sometimes funny and sometimes jarring. He charms and riffs, but he doesn't ever take his eyes off your heart.
This book just serves as further evidence of why Alexie is such an important and unrelentingly influential voice in contemporary American writing. Let's just hope he doesn't wait so long before putting out his next poetry collection!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Fathers, sons and footnotes, May 31 2009
By Patricia Kramer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Face (Paperback)
This is a very powerful book about fathers and sons, the father that Sherman Alexie has lost and the sons he is fathering. The first poem describes the interplay between a father protecting his fragile newborn son from losing sleep from the noise of a bird's nest in the eaves and the guilt and sympathetic pain he feels with the "scree-scree-scree" the starling parent makes on discovering the nest and the baby birds are gone."We will never know how this winged mother
And father would have buried their children.
Our son almost died at birth. His mother
And I would have buried him in silence."
I was hooked on the book from that first poem.
The other thing that I loved about this book was the poems with footnotes. Somehow that intrigued me. The brevity and intensity of a poem, but things needed further explanation. Fun.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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In-depth and Honest, Dec 31 2010
By M. Francis - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Face (Paperback)
Beautifully honest prose and poetry. Humor and reality all mixed into one. Reading the majority of Alexie's work, this is, in my opinion, the best poetry/prose he has ever written.
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