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Original fire : selected and new poems

Erdrich, Louise (author.).

Summary: A collection of poems that explore such themes as family, death, mourning, sensuality, and Native American and Christian beliefs.

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  • ISBN: 9780060935344 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    158 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2004.

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Formatted Contents Note: Jacklight. Jacklight -- The woods -- The strange people -- Captivity -- Owls -- I was sleeping where the black oaks move -- Family reunion -- Indian boarding school : the runaways -- Dear John Wayne -- Manitoulin ghost -- Three sisters -- The Lefavor girls -- Walking in the breakdown lane -- The red sleep of beasts -- The Potchikoo stories. The birth of Potchikoo -- Potchikoo marries -- How Potchikoo got old -- The death of Potchikoo -- 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 -- Saint Potchikoo -- The butcher's wife. The butcher's wife -- The pull from the left -- The Carmelites -- 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 -- Unexpected dangers -- My name repeated on the lips of the dead -- A mother's hell -- Rudy comes back -- New vows -- The seven sleepers. Fooling God -- The sacraments -- The seven sleepers -- Avila -- Saint Clare -- Mary Magdalene -- Christ's twin -- Orozco's Christ -- The Savior -- The buffalo prayer -- Rez litany -- Original fire. The fence -- Ninth month -- Birth -- 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.
Subject: Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Poetry
American poetry
Indigenous authors -- North America -- Poetry
Genre: Poetry.
Topic Heading: Indigenous.
First Nations.

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