I: New and Selected Poems - Couverture rigide

Derricotte, Toi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822945665 ISBN 13 : 9780822945666

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for PoetryHow do you gain access to thepower of parts of yourself youabhor, and make them singwith beauty, tenderness, and compassion?This is a record of fifty years of victories in the reclamationof a poet's voice.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 poem is an act of victory, finding a path through 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822945665
• ISBN 13: 9780822945666
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible