Captivity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derricotte, Toi

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. Blackbottom

The Minks

Blackbottom

Poem for My Father

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing

The House on Norwood

St. Peter Claver

The Weakness

Fires in Childhood

I. Aerial Photographs Before the Atomic Bomb

II. The Chicago Streetcar Fire

Abuse

High School

Hamtramck: The Polish Women

The Struggle

II. Red Angel

Before Making Love

Saturday Night

On Stopping Late in the Afternoon for Steamed Dumplings

Stuck

Squeaky Bed

The Good Old Dog

The Promise

For a Man Who Speaks with Birds

The Friendship

Touching/Not Touching: My Mother

Tiedown

My Father Still Sleeping After Surgery

III. The Testimony of Sister Maureen

The Testimony of Sister Maureen

IV. The Terrible Bright Air

Boy at the Paterson Falls

Fears of the Eighth Grade

The Furious Boy

In an Urban School

The Choice

Letter to Miss Glazer

The Polishers of Brass

For the Dishwasher at Boothman's

Plaid Pants

Books

Allen Ginsberg

Whitman, Come Again to the Cities

On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses

A Note on My Son's Face.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8229-7851-2

OCLC:

556895518