Jacklight, Biography, Literature and Literary studies – Poetry , Paperback, Louise Erdrich

Name: Jacklight, Biography, Literature and Literary studies – Poetry , Paperback, Louise Erdrich
Brand: Flamingo

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JacklightAuthor(s): Louise Erdrich\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: Flamingo\nISBN-13: 9780006546221, 978-0006546221\nSynopsis\nA poetry collection from Louise Erdrich, winner of Americas prestigious National Book Award for Fiction, 2012\nThe poems of Louise Erdrich eloquently and passionately bring to life what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner, and a Native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality but with a powerful magic. Although she often draws from a deep enchanted well, she does not ignore the ordinary.\nOne sequence of poems presents a small town in the early part of this century and Mary Krger, the butchers widow. Mary lives within the shadows of her memories, the pulse of her desires and the pragmatic surface of her commonplace days in the centre of a town awash with gossip, commerce and lust.\nOther poems draw from images so ripe they become myth, signs and directions the visible world of.