The Undertaker’s Daughter (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Derricotte, Toi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822962004 ISBN 13: 9780822962007

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011

Synopsis

“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

About this title

About the Author:

Toi Derricotte is the author of four previous poetry collections: The Empress of the Death House; Natural Birth; Captivity; and Tender, winner of the Patterson 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 and professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Review:

“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

“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

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0822962004
• ISBN 13: 9780822962007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104