Jacklight

Jacklight is a 1984 poetry collection by Louise Erdrich. The collection grew from poems Erdrich wrote for her 1979 Master of Arts thesis at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

• 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"

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