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Toi Derricotte

Toi Derricotte 0000000083980729 “My skin causes certain problems continuously, problems that open the issue of racism over and over like a wound.” Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet a...

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Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady MULTIPLE Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady are co-founders of the Cave Canem Foundation, established in 1996 to support African American poets and address their unde...

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I: New and Selected Poems

by Toi Derricotte

I: New and Selected Poems Toi Derricotte 9780822966289 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Winner, 2020 Frost Medal Finalist, 2019 National Book Award Honorable Ment...

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Tender

by Toi Derricotte

Tender Toi Derricotte 9780822956402 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender  probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, ...

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I: New and Selected Poems

by Toi Derricotte

I: New and Selected Poems Toi Derricotte 9780822945666 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press In Derricotte’s own words: "How do you gain access to the power of parts of...

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Natural Birth

by Toi Derricotte

Natural Birth Toi Derricotte 9781563411205 Poetry Firebrand Books Firebrand Books With insightful candour, Toi Derricote’s poem explores the ways in which her confusion about love and sex and longing ...

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The Undertaker’s Daughter

by Toi Derricotte

The Undertaker’s Daughter Toi Derricotte 9780822962007 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press "This is a personal, moving work about child abuse, racial ’passing, ’ and w...

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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

by Toi Derricotte

The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey Toi Derricotte 9780393319019 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Black Notebooks is the most profound document I have read on ra...

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Captivity

by Toi Derricotte

Captivity Toi Derricotte 9780822954224 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other?  Captivity explores th...

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Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade

by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472069248 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...

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Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade

by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472099245 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...

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Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Accept Literarian Award for Outstanding Service

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Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Accept Literarian Award for Outstanding Service Author Interviews Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Accept the 2016 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the Am...

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The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life

by Calvin C. Hernton

The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life Calvin C. Hernton 9780385418270 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House The author of...

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Sexual Mountain

by Calvin C. Hernton

Sexual Mountain Calvin C. Hernton 9780385239219 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House The author of Sex and Racism in America argues here that black men, who dominate the world of black lite...

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Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady 0000000025783225 Cornelius Eady is a renowned poet and author of eight books, including award-winning “Victims of the Latest Dance Craze.” He co-founded the Cave Canem workshop for Afr...

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Overtime

by Connie Barrett

Overtime Connie Barrett 9780974013619 Fiction Morris Publishing Morris Publishing Four men, two women and one job add up to nothing but trouble in Connie Barrett’s sophomore fiction novel, Overt...

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University of Pittsburgh Press

by Troy Johnson

University of Pittsburgh Press Troy Johnson Article   http://www.pitt.edu/~press   Title:  Captivity Author:  Toi Derricotte Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press Date Published:...

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If I Was Your Girl (Ni-Ni Girl Chronicles)

by Ni-Ni Simone

If I Was Your Girl (Ni-Ni Girl Chronicles) Ni-Ni Simone 9780758228413 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. With a bootylicious body like Beyoncé and a face that would put any top model to ...

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Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology

by Barbara Smith

Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...

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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

by Terrance Hayes

Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry Terrance Hayes 9780143137733 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the National Book Award–winning aut...

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Neighborhood Register

by Marcus Jackson

Neighborhood Register Marcus Jackson 9781933880259 Poetry CavanKerry Press CavanKerry Press "A poet whose voice and message we trust…a singular and significant voice. You will not forget this neighbor...

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Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century

by E. Ethelbert Miller

Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century E. Ethelbert Miller 9781574780178 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This anthology begins with the memory of landscapes...

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

by Lynda Koolish

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai   Will Alexander   Robe...

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Ploughshares Spring 1997: Poems and Stories

by Yusef Komunyakaa

Ploughshares Spring 1997: Poems and Stories Yusef Komunyakaa 9780933277199 Poetry Ploughshares Books Emerson College Contributors to this issue include: Tony Ardizzone, William Baer, James Bertolino, ...

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Cave Canem's 10th Anniversary

by Kam Williams

Cave Canem's 10th Anniversary Kam Williams Interview Poetry Unleashed - Cave Canem's 10th Anniversary by Rondall Brasher My awakening was Cave Canem's 10th Anniversary celebration he...

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University of Pittsburgh Press

by AALBC Writers Guide

University of Pittsburgh Press Loading     http://www.pitt.edu/~press   Title:  Captivity Author:  Toi Derricotte Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press Date Publishe...

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Overtime

by Connie Barrett

Overtime Connie Barrett Excerpt Chapter One:With one foot lodged in her house shoe, Toi searched in vain for the other, all the while fighting the urge to roll back into the warm covers that invi...

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