Original Fire (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Creation myth, Marriage, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Women, Animals, Wildlife, Wilderness, Butchers
Louise Erdrich opens Original Fire with the title poem from the book Jacklight (1984), a depiction of difference and similarity drawn as a confrontation between inhabitants and invaders of the wilderness. Erdrich locates the poetic perspective in the consciousness of deer spirits, whose home ground has been disrupted by the incursion of human beings, for whom the forest is alien but inviting terrain. The meeting of disparate populations is one of Erdrich’s primary themes, exemplified in her novels by the interaction of Catholic missionaries and American Indian tribal...
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