Tender (Pitt Poetry Series) - Hardcover
Book by Derricotte, Toi
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About the Author:
Toi Derricotte is the author of The Undertaker's Daughter, The Empress of the Death House; Natural Birth; Captivity; and Tender, winner of the Paterson 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:
1:30 A.m.
After A Reading At A Black College
At A Cocktail Party Honoring A Noted Old Southern Writer (1)
At Wintergreen: A Retreat For African-american Women Writers
Black Boys Play The Classics
The Blessing
The Body Awakening
Bookstore
Brother
Clitoris
Coming
Dead Baby Speaks
Death At Still Point
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Above Elmina
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Beneath Elmina
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Market
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Power
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Slavery
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Journey
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Tour
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Tourists' Lunch
Family Secrets
For Black Women Who Are Afraid
For Sharan Strange, After A Reading
For Sister Sue Ellen And Her Special Messenger
From A Letter: About Snow
Grace Paley Reading
In The Mountains
Inventory
Invisible Dreams
Not Forgotten
On Katchimac Bay: Homer, Alaska
On The Miracle Of The Crying Statue: Before You Begin
The Origins Of The Artist: Natalie Cole
Passing (1)
Shoe Repair Business
Tender
The Touch
Two Poems: Bird
Two Poems: Peripheral
When My Father Was Beating Me
Workshop On Racism (2)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Raw, honest and provocative. It hits those vulnerable spots in us where we question our openness to such issues as racial harmony and sexual freedom. . . . This is an emotionally compelling collection, one that lives for the reader in its stark images. -- Kliatt
Toi Derricotte seems to write from a place deep in her body. . . . I am grateful for her honesty, her exactness, her sense of justice and openness to love.....Derricotte's range of diction, form, and subject is grand. -- Women's Review of Books
After A Reading At A Black College
At A Cocktail Party Honoring A Noted Old Southern Writer (1)
At Wintergreen: A Retreat For African-american Women Writers
Black Boys Play The Classics
The Blessing
The Body Awakening
Bookstore
Brother
Clitoris
Coming
Dead Baby Speaks
Death At Still Point
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Above Elmina
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Beneath Elmina
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Market
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Power
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Slavery
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Journey
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Tour
Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Tourists' Lunch
Family Secrets
For Black Women Who Are Afraid
For Sharan Strange, After A Reading
For Sister Sue Ellen And Her Special Messenger
From A Letter: About Snow
Grace Paley Reading
In The Mountains
Inventory
Invisible Dreams
Not Forgotten
On Katchimac Bay: Homer, Alaska
On The Miracle Of The Crying Statue: Before You Begin
The Origins Of The Artist: Natalie Cole
Passing (1)
Shoe Repair Business
Tender
The Touch
Two Poems: Bird
Two Poems: Peripheral
When My Father Was Beating Me
Workshop On Racism (2)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Raw, honest and provocative. It hits those vulnerable spots in us where we question our openness to such issues as racial harmony and sexual freedom. . . . This is an emotionally compelling collection, one that lives for the reader in its stark images. -- Kliatt
Toi Derricotte seems to write from a place deep in her body. . . . I am grateful for her honesty, her exactness, her sense of justice and openness to love.....Derricotte's range of diction, form, and subject is grand. -- Women's Review of Books
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- PublisherUniv of Pittsburgh Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0822939932
- ISBN 13 9780822939931
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages83
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