The empress of the death house / by Toi Derricotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derricotte, Toi, 1941-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

51 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Lotus Press, 1978.

Contents:

I. Sleeping with Mr. Death. sleeping with mr. death; the story of a very broken lady; the mirror poems; the face/as it must be/of love; divorcee; last will of one who lived alone; nun; doll poem; new lady godiva

II. The Empress of the Death House. poem no. 1; Trees; The Grandmother Poems; The Empress of the Death House; The Feeding; The Funeral Parade; the naming; from a group of poems thinking about Anne Sexton on the anniversary of her death; mr. claus; unburying the bird.

Notes:

"Cover design Jeanne E. Derricotte. Calligraphy: Barbara Van Dyke Wood."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition First Printing".

ISBN:

091641812X :

OCLC:

4300338