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Books by Toi Derricotte
  | | The Undertaker's Daughter(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6200-7, ISBN: 0-8229-6200-4 "“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" |
 | | Gathering Ground A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Camille Thornton Dungy, Carolyn Micklem, Cave Canem Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06924-8, ISBN: 0-472-06924-1 "Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize.T ..." |
 | | The Black Notebooks(1st Edition) An Interior Journey by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31901-9, ISBN: 0-393-31901-6 "Realizing that her light skin and "good hair" conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white. She speaks ambivalently ..." |
 | | Tender(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5640-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5640-3 "Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, child abuse, mother hatred, and the physical and psychological ravages of violence. These poems are raw and upsetting in subject matter, yet extremely readable." |
 | | Captivity(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5422-4, ISBN: 0-8229-5422-2 "What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God." |
 | | I(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Toi Derricotte Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4566-6, ISBN: 0-8229-4566-5 "A Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for PoetryRecipient of the 2020 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in PoetryBCALA Honor Book for Best Poetry Award 2020 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.” The story of Toi ..." |
 | | Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2000 by Firebrand Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56341-120-5, ISBN: 1-56341-120-2 "Toi Derricotte's Natural Birth "captures at length, and more than any other childbirth poem I know, the thing itself and not the myth", Alicia Ostriker wrote in her review of the book when it was first published in the early '80s.The ..." |
 | | The Black Notebooks(1st Edition) An Interior Journey by Toi Derricotte Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 1997 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04544-4, ISBN: 0-393-04544-7 "Spanning twenty years, from the time the author, a light-skinned black woman, moved into an all-white neighborhood, a journal ponders the meaning of being black in a racially divided country, and the price of denying it." |
 | | Poems for Jerry A Tribute to Gerald Stern (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION) by Gerald Stern, Ed Ochester, Jean Valentine, Matthew Dickman, Peter Oresick, Scott Silsbe, Toi Derricotte, Dave Newman, Lori Jakiela, Lynn Emanuel Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 2015 by Caliban Book Shop ISBN-13: 978-1-5173-3479-6, ISBN: 1-5173-3479-9 "A tribute to Gerald Stern, with poems about Stern or in his style by a bevy of contemporary poets, plus 4 previously unpublished poems by Stern himself. Contributors include: Ed Ochester, Jean Valentine, Matthew Dickman, Peter Oresick, Judith Vollmer, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, Jan Beatty, Jimmy Cvetic, Dave Newman, Scott Silsbe, Bob Pajich, and Lori Jakiela." |
 | | Rising An Anthology of Poems by the South Mountain-Watchung Poets by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1987 by The Print Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9618265-0-5, ISBN: 0-9618265-0-9 |
 | | Gathering Ground A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Camille Thornton Dungy, Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09924-5, ISBN: 0-472-09924-8 "Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. ..." |
 | | A Bruise Is a Figure of Remembrance by Toi Derricotte, Dawn Lundy Martin Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0-9820626-8-5, ISBN: 0-9820626-8-0 |
 | | I New & Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte 65 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8677-5, ISBN: 0-8229-8677-9 "This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five of Derricotte's previous published books of poetry." |
 | | "I"(1st Edition) New & Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Toi Derricotte Paperback, 65 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6583-1, ISBN: 0-8229-6583-6 "This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five of Derricotte's previous published books of poetry." |
 | | In Plein Air Poems and Drawings of the Natural World by Arlyn Miller, Susan Gundlach, Judith Adams, K. B. Ballentine, Cathy Barber, Ellen Bass, Michael H. Brownstein, Janet Cannon, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Judith Waller Carroll, Daryl Ngee Chin, Tasha Cotter, Sage Cohen, Diane Elayne Dees, Wendy Degroat, Toi Derricotte, Kirsten Dierking, Charlotte Digregorio, Dina Elenbogen, Farnaz Fatemi, Catherine Gonick, Karin B. Gordon 97 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0-692-89729-4, ISBN: 0-692-89729-1 "This book immerses readers into a diverse range of landscapes: rural, urban, fragile, timeless, buzzing, silent. Illustrations hand-drawn expressly for this collection enhance this limited edition of 220 individually numbered books." |
 | | The Undertaker S Daughter by Toi Derricotte Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-306-55435-0, ISBN: 1-306-55435-7 |
 | | A Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers by Janet Burroway, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Blais, Rosellen Brown, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Toi Derricotte, Gail Godwin, Patricia Henley, Erica Jong Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01410-4, ISBN: 0-226-01410-X "In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the "Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" "made it into the magazinebut not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the ..." |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. The Undertaker's Daughter by Toi Derricotte 104 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7816-9, ISBN: 0-8229-7816-4 "My heartfelt thanks, as well,to BrianWeller, Alison Meyers, Cornelius Eady,Sarah Micklem, Carolyn Micklem, Francis Gargani, Diane Mazefsky, and Susan Wind. Special thanks toEd Ochesterfor his support of mywork over the yearsandfor the ..." |
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