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Baptism of desire : poems / Louise Erdrich.

By:

Erdrich, Louise

Publication details: New York : Harper & Row , c1989.Edition: 1st edDescription: 78 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780060162139

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DDC classification:

811.54 ERD

LOC classification:

PS3555.R42 B3 1989

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811.54 ERD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		040780

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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.

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