Jacklight

For the night hunting technique, see Spotlighting.

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.

Jacklight

First edition
Author	Louise Erdrich
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date	February 15, 1984
Publication place	United States
Media type	Paperback
Pages	85
ISBN	0-03-068682-2 (first edition) ISBN 0-8050-1047-5 (current)

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"