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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822609903321

Autore

Derricotte Toi

Titolo

The undertaker's daughter / / Toi Derricotte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8229-7816-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (104 p.)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

811.54

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

American poetry - Women authors

American poetry

Poetry, Modern - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.