The Undertaker's Daughter

Description

"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart." --Washington Post on Captivity

Product Details

Price

$18.00 $16.74

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Publish Date

October 24, 2011

Pages

104

Dimensions

5.9 X 9.0 X 0.3 inches | 0.4 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780822962007

BISAC Categories:

American - General

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About the Author

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 Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. Derricotte is cofounder of Cave Canem, professor emerita at the University of Pittsburgh, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Reviews

"Toi Derricotte's poems show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escaped--and paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today."
--Sharon Olds on Captivity

"Derricotte's words touch the reader as life has touched her, soul and body. This is a strong, sensuous, original, courageous book."
--Adrienne Rich on Captivity

"This is a personal, moving work about child abuse, racial 'passing, ' and women making art, and will attract all readers interested in these topics."

--Library Journal

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