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"