The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derricotte, Toi, 1941-

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

94 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011]

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 pray 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.

ISBN:

9780822962007

0822962004

OCLC:

721888274