Toi Derricotte
Autor von The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
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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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Toi Derricotte
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 30 Exemplare
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Mitwirkender — 113 Exemplare
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Mitwirkender — 99 Exemplare
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
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- Derricotte, Toi
- Geburtstag
- 1941-04-12
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
- Ausbildung
- Wayne State University
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- University of Pittsburgh
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Wallace Stevens Award (2021)
Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry (2023)
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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.… (mehr)