Original fire
Subtitle: selected and new poems
By: Louise Erdrich
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780066209869
Subjects: Poetry; Indians of North America
Description: Includes key selections from the author's previous works as well as nineteen new poems, featuring themes and characters from her novels.
Table of contents: title: 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 - That 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 buffalo prayer - The savior - Rez litany - Avila - Saint clare - Mary magdalene - Christ's twin - Orozco's christ - 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