The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Derricotte, Toi, author.

Series:

• Pitt poetry series.
• Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--21st century.
• American poetry--Women authors.
• American poetry.
• Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart." -Washington Post on Captivity

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 5, 2014).

ISBN:

• 9780822978169
• 0822978164

OCLC:

878146111