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||> ==Biography ==
 * == Louise Erdrich  ==


 * Karen Louise Edurich**. was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesotta. She was the oldest of seven children and grew up in North Dakota.Her mother is French and her father was a German American. Her grandfather was the Tribal Chairman of the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She is also a member of the Indian Tribe band.She married author and anthropiologist Michael Dorris. The two wrote literature together, and was sometimes known as the poster couple of multicultural literature.The couple seperated in 1995. Dorris latter comitted suicide . She is responsible for the writings of the novels __Love Medicine__, __The Beet Queen,__ __Tracks,__ and many others. Louise's main genres of writing are Native American Literature, due to her childhood. ||

Explication
The poem "I was Sleeping Where the Black Oak Moves" is a poem that mainly talks about nature and what it contains, like rivers, forests, and trees. The poem contains a little of poetic literature, like similes, metaphors, and personification. The poem takes the narrative way with the narrator acting as little girl, who is oulooking into the wilderness from her house with her grandfather. While the girl and her grandfather are examining the wilderness, and looking at it from their point of view. During this poem, the trees and river seem to be coming to life and trying to survive. As the grandfather puts it, "These are the ghosts of the tree people moving among us, unable to take their rest." When reading this peom you can feel like you are there watching the wilderness with the little girl and her grandfather. The way the Louise presents her writing like, "Wrestling everything into it,the water wrapped around trees until their life-hold was broken." The illustration of that one line/sentence just pops into your head. You feel as though you are there. Also, the reader can make a connection with the poem if he/her had memory with their grandfather, like the one that the poem portrays.

Poetry links

 * ||> * http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171828 "I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move"
 * http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171833 "Windigo"
 * http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171832 "The King of Owls" ||