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"