Jacklight

First edition
Author	Louise Erdrich
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date	February 15, 1984
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"

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