I: New & Selected Poems

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6583-1
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR

Buch, Englisch, 65 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Pitt Poetry

“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.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derricotte, Toi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Toi Derricotte is the author of The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and four earlier collections of poetry, including Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton), received the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her honors include, among many others, the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes and the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists. Derricotte is the co-founder of Cave Canem Foundation (with Cornelius Eady), Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Toi serves on Marsh Hawk Press’s Artistic Advisory Board.