Author: Erdrich, Louise,
Title: Baptism of Desire - Poems.
Description: NY, Harper Perennial, (1991). 2nd prntg. VG LG SZ PB. A second book of poetry by the author of best selling and award-winning novels Love Medicine, Beet Queen and Tracks. A baptism by blood, water or desire is necesary for salvation in Roman Catholic tradition and captism of desire is the term used for the leap of trust is the term used by which a sincere believer can experience spiritual regneneration. Erdrich's poems are acts of redemption everywhere evidents is her unique capacaity for finding the perfect word, the fresh, yet absoluetly right metaphor that makes her work both profound and accessible.

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