Original Fire: Selected and New Poems - Hardcover

Erdrich, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066209862 ISBN 13: 9780066209869

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Synopsis

A new collection by the best-selling author of Jacklight and Baptism of Desire includes key selections from her previous works as well as nineteen new poems, featuring themes and characters from her novels.

About this title

Review:

"The poems are hypnotic and retain an emphatic passionate fire."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Erdrich is profoundly sensual, frankly bawdy and slyly comedic."--Booklist

"Essential reading for fans of Erdrich's fiction, this volume can be expected to draw poetry readers into the fold."--Library Journal (starred review)

"Artistically impressive and highly entertaining."--Miami Herald

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: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0066209862
• ISBN 13: 9780066209869
• Binding: Hardcover