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Book Details · Subject Headings · Plot Summary · Table of Contents
Arranged in 5 sections, Original Fire contains 68 titles - 18 of which were never before published.
"Time" was originally published in Georgia Review and appears in slightly revised form.
2003 edition: (ISBN 0066209862, cloth)
Book designed by Joseph Rutt
Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Jacket photograph courtesy of State Historical Society of North Dakota, image 410-419
Author photograph by Marc Norberg
2004 edition: (ISBN 0060935340, paper) by Perennial.
Descriptor:
Indians of North America -- Poetry
The "Jacklight" section includes one new title - "Manitoulin Island."
"The Potchikoo Stories" section includes one new title - "Saint Potchikoo."
"The Seven Sleepers includes three new titles - "The Seven Sleepers," "Buffalo Prayer" and "Rez Littany."
"The Butcher's Wife" section contains no new poems.
The "Original Fire" section is comprised of 16 poems; all but 3 ("The Fence," "Ninth Month" and "Birth") are new.
Jacklight
Jacklight (Jacklight: Jacklight)
The Woods (Jacklight: Hunters)
The Strange People (Jacklight: Myths)
Captivity (Jacklight: Hunters)
Owls (Baptism of Desire: part 5)
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move (Jacklight: Myths)
Family Reunion (Jacklight: Runaways)
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways (Jacklight: Runaways)
Dear John Wayne (Jacklight: Runaways)
Manitoulin Ghost
Three Sisters (Jacklight: Myths)
The Lefavor Girls (Jacklight: Myths)
Walking in the Breakdown Lane (Jacklight: Runaways)
The Red Sleep of Beasts (Jacklight: Myths)
The Potchikoo Stories
The Birth of Potchikoo (Jacklight: Myths)
Potchikoo Marries (Jacklight: Myths)
How Potchikoo Got Old (Jacklight: Myths)
The Death of Potchikoo (Jacklight: Myths)
Potchikoo’s Life After Death (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
How They Don’t Let Potchikoo into Heaven (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Where Potchikoo Goes Next (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Potchikoo’s Detour (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Potchikoo Greets Josette (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Potchikoo Restored (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Potchikoo’s Mean Twin (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
How Josette Takes Care of It (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Saint Potchikoo (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
The Butcher’s Wife
The Butcher's Wife (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
That Pull from the Left (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
The Carmelites (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
Clouds (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Shelter (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
The Slow Sting of Her Company (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Here Is a Good Word for Step?and-a?Half Waleski (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Portrait of the Town Leonard (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Leonard Commits Redeeming Adulteries with All the Women in Town (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Unexpected Dangers 75 (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
My Name Repeated on the Lips of the Dead (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
A Mother's Hell (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
Rudy Comes Back (Baptism of Desire: part 2)
New Vows (Jacklight: The Butcher's Wife)
The Seven Sleepers
Fooling God (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
The Sacraments (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
The Seven Sleepers
Avila (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Saint Clare (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Mary Magdalene (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Christ’s Twin (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Orozco’s Christ (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
The Savior (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
The Buffalo Prayer
Rez Litany
Original Fire
The Fence (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Ninth Month (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
Birth (Baptism of Desire: part 1)
New Mother
Sorrows of the Frog Woman
Time
Spring Evening on Blind Mountain
Blue
Thistles
Best Friends in the First Grade
Little Blue Eyeglasses
Grief
Wood Mountain
Advice to Myself
Morning Fire
Asiniig
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Modified: August 13, 2008,
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