Jacklight
|  First edition | |
| Author | Louise Erdrich | 
|---|---|
| Language | English | 
| Genre | Poetry | 
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | 
| Publication date | February 15, 1984 | 
| Publication place | United States | 
| Media type | Paperback | 
| Pages | 85 | 
| ISBN | 0-03-068682-2 (first edition) ISBN 0-8050-1047-5 (current) | 
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.[1]
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"
 
References
- ^ "Louise Erdrich: Biography". University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Center for Great Plains Studies. c. 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-24.