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1 online resource |
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Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series
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Intro; Contents; Preface to the New and Selected Poems; Speculations about ""I; After all those years of fear and raging in my poems; After the Gwendolyn Brooks reading; Among school children; As my writing changes I think with sorrow of those who couldn't change; Biographia Literaria Africana; Blessed angels; Elegy for my husband; The enthusiast; The exchange; Gifts from the dead; Glimpse; Black woman as Magician at CVS; The most surprising and necessary ingredient in my mother's spaghetti sauce; Bad Dad; Glimpse; I count on you invisible; I give in to an old desire; The intimates |
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The intimatesOn a woman who excuses herself from the table, even in restaurants, to brush her teeth; Homage; Jerry Stern's friendship; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Lauds; Midnight: Long Train Passing; My father in old age; A nap; New Orleans palmetto bug; 1. False Gods; 2. Why the giant palmetto bugs in New Orleans run toward you when you are screaming at them to go away; Note; Pantoum for the Broken; The Peaches of August; The permission; The proof; Rereading Jerry Stern; Sex in old age; Streaming; Summer evening at Still Point |
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Telly redux: Sharon asks me to send a picture of little fishie TellyWatching a roach give birth on YouTube, I think of Lucille Clifton meeting God; What are you?; The Empress of the Death House; sleeping with mr. death; the story of a very broken lady; the mirror poems; the face/as it must be/of love; doll poem; new lady godiva; The Grandmother Poems; The Empress of the Death House; The Feeding; The Funeral Parade; from a group of poems thinking about Anne Sexton on the anniversary of her death; unburying the bird; Natural Birth; Introduction: Writing Natural Birth; november |
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Holy cross hospitalmaternity; 10:29; transition; delivery; in knowledge of young boys; Captivity; The Minks; Blackbottom; Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing; St. Peter Claver; The Weakness; Fires in Childhood; High School; Hamtramck: The Polish Women; The Struggle; Before Making Love; On Stopping Late in the Afternoon for Steamed Dumplings; Stuck; Squeaky Bed; The Good Old Dog; The Promise; For a Man Who Speaks with Birds; Touching/Not Touching: My Mother; My Father Still Sleeping after Surgery; Boy at the Paterson Falls; Fears of the Eighth Grade; The Furious Boy; In an Urban School |
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The Polishers of BrassFor the Dishwasher at Boothman's; Plaid Pants; Books; Allen Ginsberg; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses; A Note on My Son's Face; Tender; Preface; Tender; Exits from Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Journey; The Tour; Tourists' Lunch; Beneath Elmina; Above Elmina; Slavery; Power; Market; When My Father Was Beating Me; Black Boys Play the Classics; Brother; Family Secrets; After a Reading at a Black College; For Black Women Who Are Afraid; Passing; Bookstore; Invisible Dreams; Two Poems; Peripheral; Bird; 1:30 A.M.; Dead Baby Speaks |
| Summary |
A Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. In Derricotte's own words: "How do you gain access to the / power of parts of yourself you / abhor, and make them sing / with beauty, tenderness, and compassion? / This is the record of fifty years / of victories in the reclamation / of a poet's voice." |
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The story of Toi Derricotte is a hero's odyssey. It is the journey of a poetic voice that in each book earns her way to 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 poet is an act of victory as they find their way through the repressive forces to speak with both beauty and truth. This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five of Derricotte's previously published books of poetry. -- From dust jacket |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2019) |
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American poetry.
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Death -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- General.
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American poetry
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Death
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American poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822986775 |
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0822986779 |
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