CRITICISM

Fast, Robin Riley. “Claiming History.” In The Heart as a Drum: Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry, pp. 183-206. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1999.

Seventh chapter includes a discussion of Erdrich's poem “Captivity” among a selection of works that offer literary variations on historic accounts of relations between native and nonnative peoples in Colonial America.

Finch, Annie. “Poets of Our Time.” Belles Lettres 5, no. 4 (summer 1990): 30-1.

Review of Erdrich's Baptism of Desire.

Hughes, Sheila Hassell. “Falls of Desire/Leaps of Faith: Religious Syncretism in Louise Erdrich's and Joy Harjo's ‘Mixed-Blood’ Poetry.” Religion & Literature 33, no. 2 (summer 2001): 59-83.

Examines the blending of Western and Native religious traditions in Native American culture, and the treatment of this phenomenon in the poetry of Erdrich and Joy Harjo.

Ludlow, Jeannie. “Working (In) the In-Between: Poetry, Criticism, Interrogation, and Interruption.” SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2d ser., 6, no. 1 (spring 1994): 24-42.

Discusses the literary treatment of works by contemporary Native writers, the author focuses attention on Erdrich's poem, “The Lady in the Pink Mustang.”

Rolo, Mark Anthony. “The Progressive Interview: Louise Erdrich.” The Progressive 66, no. 4 (April 2002): 36-40.

Erdrich talks about learning the Ojibwe language and restoring its use within her family.

Additional coverage of Erdrich's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 4; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vols. 10, 47; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Bestsellers, Vol. 89:1; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography Supplement; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 114; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 41, 62, 118; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 39, 54, 120, 176; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Poets, Ed. 7; Contemporary Popular Writers; Contemporary Women Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 152, 175, 206; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors, Novelists, Popular Fiction and Genres Authors; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Poetry; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 5; Literature and Its Times Supplement, Vol. 1;Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; Native North American Literature; Novels for Students, Vol. 5; Poetry for Students, Vol. 14; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 14; Something About the Author, Vols. 94, 141; and Twentieth-Century Western Writers, Ed. 2.