"I" : new and selected poems / Toi Derricotte.
Material type:
TextSeries: Pitt poetry seriesPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxi, 298 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780822945666
- 0822945665
- I : new & selected poems
- Poems. Selections
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 D438 | Available | 33111009542545 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner, 2020 Frost Medal
Finalist, 2019 National Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2020 BCALA Literary Awards
Toi Derricotte's story is a hero's journey--a poet earning her way 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 as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth.
This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.
A Publishers Weekly Spring 2019 Announcements: Poetry, Top 10 Selection.
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."