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
Author: Toi Derricotte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/24/2011
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822962007
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 86
Booklist 12/01/2011 pg. 10
About the Author
Author: Toi Derricotte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/24/2011
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822962007
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 86
Booklist 12/01/2011 pg. 10
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.
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