The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.

Author/creator Derricotte, Toi, 1941-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press,
Description94 p. ; 23 cm.
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SeriesPitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series. ^A86836
Contents Pt. I. 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 -- pt. II. 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 -- pt. III. The undertaking. The exigencies of form -- The undertaking.
General notePoems.
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LCCN 2013498513
ISBN9780822962007 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822962004 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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