Toi Derricotte
Auteur de The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
A propos de l'auteur
Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet whose work tackles difficult and universal subject matter such as violence, racism, mother hood, and self-identity through an auto-biographical lens. She is the author of The Undertaker's Daughter and four previous poetry collections, including Tender, winner afficher plus 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, professor emerira at the university of Pittsburgh, and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. afficher moins
Crédit image: http://www.toiderricotte.com/
Œuvres de Toi Derricotte
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Derricotte, Toi
- Date de naissance
- 1941-04-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
- Études
- Wayne State University
New York University - Professions
- dichter
docent - Organisations
- University of Pittsburgh
- Prix et distinctions
- Wallace Stevens Award (2021)
Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry (2023)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 34
- Membres
- 360
- Popularité
- #66,630
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 24
- Favoris
- 1
The themes here vary: her childhood with her abusive father, mother, and favorite aunt; knowing her father as an adult; losing her parents; her husband and their relationship; life after her husband's death; poetry; life as a black woman who can "pass" (accidentally or on purpose), and what that has meant for her, her mother, and other relatives who have either chosen to or chosen not to.
This book was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 2019. Derricotte was the only poet of the finalists that I had heard of--though I could not tell you what I had read by her. Possibly selection in an anthology or other collection. I do want to read one of her books that has a more cohesive theme or style, based on the strength of these poems.… (plus d'informations)