Jacklight
Poems pitched at the line where the reservation meets the towns around it, opening with hunters shining a light into the woods to freeze whatever is about to be shot, and the deer looking back down the beam. A middle sequence hands a North Dakota butcher's wife her own voice, and a late one follows Potchikoo, a trickster fathered on a potato. Erdrich's first book, out in the same year as her first novel.
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