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Toi Derricotte
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…
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Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, child abuse, mother hatred, and the physical and psychological ravages of violence. These poems are raw and upsetting in…
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…
Shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy.
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Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, feaures writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it…
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An account of race in the USA seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected poet. It challenges preconceived notions of what it means to be…
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