Bidwell Ghost | Critical Overview
Several critics point out Erdrich’s use of specific locations in her poetry as a means to discover a subject fully. Carolyne Wright, in her essay published in the Northwest Review, points out that Erdrich’s “work is so clearly rooted in its setting and milieu as to enable her to achieve access to the invisible: the realm of myth, which must always be grounded in the actual and tangible.” Literally a “ghost story,” this specific description of location and movement toward the invisible realm of myth is evident in “Bidwell Ghost.” Also apparent, according to other...
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