The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.

Author/creator Derricotte, Toi, 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoPittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.
Description94 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry--Women authors.
American poetry.
Poetry--21st century.
Poetry.

SeriesPitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series. ^A86836
Contents The undertaker's daughter: I am not afraid to be memoir ; Burial sites ; The undertaker's daughter ; Sunday afternoons at Claire Carlyle's ; For my unnamed brother (1943-1943) ; Dolls ; Mistrust of the beloved -- A memory of the future: I see my father after his death ; My dad & sardines ; On a picture of the Buddhist monk Pema Chödrön ; On the revolution of the Jersey cows ; The new pet ; The Telly cycle (For Telly the fish ; Special ears ; Another poem of a small grieving for my fish Telly ; On the reasons I loved Telly the fish ; Because I was good to Telly in his life ; An apology to Telly the revolutionary) ; When the goddess makes love to me ; Untitled ; The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday ; When I touched her ; The iris and chicken fat ; Lighting the tulips ; Gershwin ; A little prayer to Our Lady ; To a cruel lover ; Cherry blossoms ; How Craig Foster enabled me to write the poems I'm writing now & gave me this voice -- The undertaking: The exigencies of form ; The undertaking.
General notePoems.
ISBN9780822962007 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
ISBN0822962004 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3554.E73 U54 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold