Baptism of Desire: Poems - Hardcover

Erdrich, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060162139 ISBN 13: 9780060162139

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

Synopsis

Poems feature an assortment of saints and sinners trying to impose an acceptable reality on the world's chaos, as they seek the grace achieved through effort

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Review:

"Louise Erdrich gives a powerful vision of the broad stages that mark most women's lives: birth, maturation, marriage, motherhood, death...She gracefully weaves traditional religious imagery and the common moments in our lives.""--Detroit Free Press

"A significant voice...The dominant chord of Louise Erdrich's poetry is that of an instinctive acceptance of life's unknowable mysteries.""--San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060162139
• ISBN 13: 9780060162139
• Binding: Hardcover