Jacklight Explained
Jacklight |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Poetry |
Release Date: | February 15, 1984 |
Media Type: | Paperback |
Pages: | 85 |
Isbn: | 0-03-068682-2 |
Isbn Note: | (first edition) (current) |
Jacklight is a 1984 poetry collection by Louise Erdrich. The collection grew from poems Erdrich wrote for her 1979 Master of Arts thesis at Johns Hopkins University.[1]
Table of Contents
- Jacklight
- Runaways
- "A Love Medicine"
- "Family Reunion"
- "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
- "Dear John Wayne"
- "Rugaroo"
- "Francine's Room"
- "The Lady in the Pink Mustang"
- "Walking in the Breakdown Lane"
- Hunters
- "The Woods"
- "The Levelers"
- "Train"
- "Captivity"
- "Chahinkapa Zoo"
- "The King of Owls"
- "Painting of a White Gate and Sky"
- "Night Sky"
- The Butcher's Wife
- "The Butcher's Wife"
- "That Pull from the Left"
- "Clouds"
- "Shelter"
- "The Slow Sting of Her Company"
- "Here Is a Good Word for Step-and-a-Half Waleski"
- "Portrait of the Town Leonard"
- "Leonard Commits Redeeming Adulteries with All the Women in Town"
- "Leonard Refuses to Atone"
- "Unexpected Dangers"
- "My Name Repeated on the Lips of the Dead"
- "A Mother's Hell"
- "The Book of Water"
- "To Otto, in Forgetfulness"
- "New Vows"
- Myths
- "I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move"
- "The Strange People"
- "The Lefavor Girls"
- "Three Sisters"
- "Whooping Cranes"
- "Old Man Potchikoo"
- "The Birth of Potchikoo"
- "Potchikoo Marries"
- "How Potchikoo Got Old"
- "The Death of Potchikoo"
- "Windigo"
- "The Red Sleep of Beasts"
- "Turtle Mountain Reservation"
References
- Web site: Louise Erdrich: Biography . c. 2005. 2007-04-24 . University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Center for Great Plains Studies .