Baptism of desire : poems
Erdrich, Louise
Baptism of desire : poems / Louise Erdrich. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper & Row , c1989. - 78 p. ; 24 cm.
This rich book will attract Erdrich fans. Like Jacklight, her first book of poems, it has tales of Potchikoo, a Chippewa Trickster, and of Mary Kroger, a butcher's wife. In the complex and masterful ``Hydra,'' a poem written during pregnancy, Erdrich addresses both the mythical serpent and her unborn child--``Blessed one, beating your tail across heaven,/ uncoiling through the length of my life''--and compares herself to both Mary and Eve. Writing ``Snake of hard hours, you are my poetry,'' she concludes, like Eve, that its place is ``at my ear.'' As in a sequence on saints and sacraments, Erdrich here appropriates and transforms the Catholic theology learned as a child. A graceful, deeply metaphoric sequence on gardening, childrearing, and marriage concludes the book.
9780060162139
89045650
Christian poetry, English
Poetry, American
PS3555.R42 / B3 1989
811.54 ERD
Baptism of desire : poems / Louise Erdrich. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper & Row , c1989. - 78 p. ; 24 cm.
This rich book will attract Erdrich fans. Like Jacklight, her first book of poems, it has tales of Potchikoo, a Chippewa Trickster, and of Mary Kroger, a butcher's wife. In the complex and masterful ``Hydra,'' a poem written during pregnancy, Erdrich addresses both the mythical serpent and her unborn child--``Blessed one, beating your tail across heaven,/ uncoiling through the length of my life''--and compares herself to both Mary and Eve. Writing ``Snake of hard hours, you are my poetry,'' she concludes, like Eve, that its place is ``at my ear.'' As in a sequence on saints and sacraments, Erdrich here appropriates and transforms the Catholic theology learned as a child. A graceful, deeply metaphoric sequence on gardening, childrearing, and marriage concludes the book.
9780060162139
89045650
Christian poetry, English
Poetry, American
PS3555.R42 / B3 1989
811.54 ERD
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