The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.
Features a collection of poems that describe such topics as her abusive father, family life, how the abuse affected her as an adult, and light-skinned blacks passing as whites.
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Pittsburgh, PA :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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Table of 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 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
- pt. III. The undertaking. The exigencies of form
- The undertaking.