I: New and Selected Poems

by Toi Derricotte

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945665
• ISBN13: 9780822945666
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"