Jacklight

Jacklight

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name =Jacklight
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author =Louise Erdrich
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country =USA
language =English
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genre =Poetry
publisher =Holt, Rinehart and Winston
release_date =February 15, 1984
media_type =Paperback
pages =85
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isbn =ISBN 0-03-068682-2 (first edition)
ISBN 0-8050-1047-5 (current)
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"Jacklight" is a 1984 poetry collection by Louise Erdrich. The collection grew from poems Erdrich wrote for her 1979 Master of Arts thesis at Johns Hopkins University. [cite web|url=http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/resource/erdrich.shtml |date= c2005|accessdate=2007-04-24 | title="Louise Erdrich: Biography" |work=University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Center for Great Plains Studies ]

Table of Contents

*Jacklight
**"Jacklight"

*Runaways
**"A Love Medicine"
**"Family Reunion"
**"Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
**"Dear John Wayne"
**"Rugaroo"
**"Francine's Room"
**"The Lady in the Pink Mustang"
**"Walking in the Breakdown Lane"

*Hunters
**"The Woods"
**"The Levelers"
**"Train"
**"Captivity"
**"Chahinkapa Zoo"
**"The King of Owls"
**"Painting of a White Gate and Sky"
**"Night Sky"

*The Butcher's Wife
**"The Butcher's Wife"
**"That Pull from the Left"
**"Clouds"
**"Shelter"
**"The Slow Sting of Her Company"
**"Here Is a Good Word for Step-and-a-Half Waleski"
**"Portrait of the Town Leonard"
**"Leonard Commits Redeeming Adulteries with All the Women in Town"
**"Leonard Refuses to Atone"
**"Unexpected Dangers"
**"My Name Repeated on the Lips of the Dead"
**"A Mother's Hell"
**"The Book of Water"
**"To Otto, in Forgetfulness"
**"New Vows"

*Myths
**"I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move"
**"The Strange People"
**"The Lefavor Girls"
**"Three Sisters"
**"Whooping Cranes"
**"Old Man Potchikoo"
**"The Birth of Potchikoo"
**"Potchikoo Marries"
**"How Potchikoo Got Old"
**"The Death of Potchikoo"
**"Windigo"
**"The Red Sleep of Beasts"
**"Turtle Mountain Reservation"

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  • jacklight — [jak′līt΄] n. [ JACK + LIGHT1] JACK (n. 14) vt. JACK (vt. 2) …   English World dictionary

  • jacklight — /jak luyt /, n., v., jacklighted or jacklit, jacklighting. n. 1. a portable cresset, oil burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night. v.t. 2. to hunt or fish for with a jacklight. v.i. 3. to hunt or fish with… …   Universalium

  • jacklight — I noun a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night • Hypernyms: ↑light, ↑light source II verb hunt with a jacklight • Syn: ↑jack • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • jacklight — n. light used as means of a lure when hunting or fishing at night v. fish or hunt using a jacklight …   English contemporary dictionary

  • jacklight — noun Date: circa 1841 a light used especially in hunting or fishing at night …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • jacklight — a light, whether a simple burning brand or a high powered lantern, used to attract fish to be netted or speared …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • jacklight — jack•light [[t]ˈdʒækˌlaɪt[/t]] n. a portable light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night • Etymology: 1785–95 …   From formal English to slang

  • jacklight — /ˈdʒæklaɪt/ (say jakluyt) noun US a portable cresset, oil burning lantern, or electric light used in hunting or fishing at night …  

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