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Browse Inside the 1991 version courtesy of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Book Details · Table of Contents · Blurbs
First published by Harper & Row in 1989.
The Harper & Row hardcover (ISBN-10: 0060162139; ISBN-13: 9780060162139) edition was published in December 1989.
The 1991 paperback edition (ISBN-10: 0060920440; ISBN-13: 9780060920449) by HarperPerrenial has a 1989 copyright date. Inside cover photo by Michael Dorris. Cover design by William Graef.
Reprinted in 2001 by Perennial (ISBN-10: 0060920440; ISBN-13: 9780060920449).
Part One
Fooling God
Saint Clare
Avila
The Visit
The Savior
Christ's Twin
Orozco's Christ
Mary Magdalene
Angels
The Sacraments
Part Two
Rudy Comes Back
Mary Kroger
Poor Clare
Bidwell Ghost
The Kitchen Gods
The Carmelites
Part Three
Hydra
Part Four
Potchikoo's Life After Death
How They Don't Let Potchikoo Into Heaven
Where Potchikoo Goes Next
Potchikoo's Detour
Potchikoo Greets Josette
Potchikoo Restored
Potchikoo's Mean Twin
How Josette Takes Care of It
Part Five
The Fence
Ninth Month
Birth
Sunflowers
Translucence
The Glass and the Bowl
Wild Plums
The Flight
The Return
The Flood
Owls
The Ritual
"Erdrich gives a powerful vision of the broad stages that mark most women's lives: birth, maturation, marriage, motherhood, death....[She] gracefully weaves traditional religious imagery and the common moments in our lives."
Detroit Free Press
"A significant voice....The dominant chord of Erdrich's poetry [is] that of an instinctive acceptance of life's unknowable mysteries."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Louise Erdrich's book deserves high praise. It is a beautiful book....I mean it is strange and musical and alive to the experience of holiness in daily life....Erdrich's awakened eye keeps rousing the poems to a life beyond the page, to some possibility she has found in life that we can carry with us long after we put the book down. It is the kind of book that defies you to put it down and return to business as usual."
Milwaukee Journal
"These poems have a fierce energy....I hope that Erdrich never has to choose between fiction and poetry. But if she ever must, I'll selfishly vote for poetry."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Modified: September 01, 2009,
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