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Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry Recipient of the 2020 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Poetry BCALA Honor Book for Best Poetry Award 2020

About the author

Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet whose work tackles difficult and universal subject matter such as violence, racism, motherhood, and self-identity through an autobiographical lens. She is the author of The Undertaker's Daughter and four previous poetry collections, including Tender, winner 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 emerita at the University of Pittsburgh, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Product details

• Authors: Toi Derricotte
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2021
• EAN: 9780822966289
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6628-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 221 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama