SOURCE: Review of Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader, in World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 845-46.

In the following review, Warrior states that Shadow Distance serves as an excellent introduction to Vizenor's extensive and varied oeuvre.

For those who teach the work of the Anishanaabe novelist, poet, essayist, and critic Gerald Vizenor but never know what to assign from his massive and growing oeuvre, an answer has arrived. Shadow Distance, a reader of Vizenor's work, follows the many twists and turns of his writing career and offers substantial pieces of his creative path. For readers who have never encountered Vizenor's work before, this is an outstanding introduction.

The reader employs five sections. The first offers autobiographical selections and draws mainly from Vizenor's 1990 memoir Interior Landscapes. It also includes, though, an autobiographical essay in which he makes links between his work in tribal literature and his early...