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        <title><![CDATA[Louise Erdrich, was born in 1954 at Little Falls, Minnesota, and raised...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Louise Erdrich, was born in 1954 at Little Falls, Minnesota, and raised in North Dakota where her parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the Wahpeton Indian School.  She is known both as a writer of fiction and poetry, and is considered perhaps the finest of Native American authors.  Both her first collection of poetry, Jacklight, and her first novel, Love Medicine, were published in 1984.  In Contemporary Women Poets, edited by...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I cannot find any information on Louise Erdrich poetry, such as "I Was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I cannot find any information on Louise Erdrich poetry, such as "I Was Sleeping Where the Balck Oaks Move"- any help would be appreciated.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:06:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem, &quot;A Sailor's Life,&quot; McCann, an Irish...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the poem, &quot;A Sailor's Life,&quot; McCann, an Irish poet, mirrors his world, his culture, for that is what he knows best. Good writers pen their works through their own experience and that experience is framed within one's culture (one's environment, traditions, values). Poetry, even perhaps more than novels, allows the poet to express that culture. Therefore, Mccann states that as a sailor, he was &quot;Jazzing and living around the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 05:27:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poets have different reasons for writing about their cultures, but among...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Poets have different reasons for writing about their cultures, but among the primary ones are to record the elements of that culture for all people to read and grasp an understanding as well as an outlet for emotion.  Poets usually write as an outlet or reaction to events in their lives--personal, local, state, federal, national events.  A prime example is the outpouring of poetry from all over the world in response to the attack on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 05:24:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the hemes of culture poems. Why are they written?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the hemes of culture poems. Why are they written?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:07:58 PST</pubDate>
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