I

New & Selected

AvToi Derricotte

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Pitt Poetry Series

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Beskrivning

Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey—a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy.It is a record of one woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poem is an act of victory as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth.This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-23
Mått:222 x 146 x 222 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822966289

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Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet whose work tackles difficult and universal subject matter such as violence, racism, motherhood, and self-identity through an autobiographical lens. She is the author of The Undertaker’s Daughter and four previous poetry collections,including Tender, winner of the Paterson PoetryPrize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizesand fellowships from the National Endowmentfor the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation,among other honors. Derricotte is cofounder ofCave Canem, professor emerita at the Universityof Pittsburgh, and a chancellor of the Academy ofAmerican Poets.

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This retrospective volume unflinchingly explores the author’s complex experiences as a light-skinned black woman in America. . . . Derricotte’s attention lingers on places of struggle where life is at its most vibrant, urgent, and surprising.