Original Fire

A passionate book of poetry from New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.In this important collection,award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell talesof betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted.Minneapolis Star Tribune