Interesting collection of poetry. Louise Erdrich is an Ojibwe author whose novels and poetry explore the intersection of her father's catholic faith and her native heritage. I don't endorse her religious vision, but the poems are entertaining. There is also a prose story (myth?) about his death, afterlife and reincarnation of Potchikoo. I especially liked Potchickoo's discovery that white-people-hell is to be chained by the neck to the Sears Roebuck Catalog. The story is wickedly funny.

My favorite poems in this volume are the most overtly religious. Part one of this volume has poems that evoke Erdrich's Catholic heritage. I especially liked Saint Clare and the seven part poem The Sacraments exploring the seven sacraments of the Catholic church, of course redefined. ( )