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Book Details · Subject Headings · Plot Summary · Table of Contents · Blurbs
The Holt, Rihehart, and Winston 1984 edition (ISBN 0030686822, paperback) is the first edition of Jacklight. View this edition's record in Google Books.
The Henry Holt edition (ISBN 0805010475, paperback) was designed by Jacqueline Schuman; cover design and illustration by David Gatti. View this edition's record in Google Books.
A Flamingo edition (ISBN 0006546226, paperback) was published in 1996. View this edition's record in Google Books.
The poems of Louise Erdrich eloquently and passionately bring to life what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner, and a Native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality but with a powerful magic. Although she often draws from a deep, enchanted well, she does not ignore the ordinary: a lady who drives a pink Mustang, a hooker who works the carnival circuit. One series of poems presents a small town in the early part of this century and Mary Kroger, the butcher's widow. Mary lives within the shadows of her memories, the pulse of her desires, and the pragmatic surface of her commonplace days in the center of a town awash with gossip, commerce, and lust. Other poems draw from images so ripe they become myth, signs and directions the world offers up in its great repetitions. Louise Erdrich writes with conviction and vision; her work speaks with a clarity and strength we cannot ignore.
JACKLIGHT
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
Backcover "Blurb"
"Reading the poems in Jacklight, one experiences the sensation of fear that an honest vision evokes. That is how we must learn things; by knowing a bit of truthful fear we may know courage, love, faith, life. That is the way I experience Erdrich's poems of revelation. She is a remarkable, remarkable writer. --Simon Ortiz
Modified: June 02, 2008,