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Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st CenturyISBN 1574780174 (1-57478-017-4)
Softcover, Black Classic Pr
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journeyby Toi DerricotteISBN 0393319016 (0-393-31901-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey'Book summary:Realizing that her light skin and "good hair" conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white. She speaks ambivalently of milking such moments, deliberately making end runs around her dark-skinned husband, Bruce, while looking for a home in an all-white suburb or hoping for a decent hotel room. Derricotte talks bluntly, too, of a self-loathing that accompanies being black in America and of not being "black enough." Her honest, angry, painful truth-telling veers into self-absorption and repetition, but perhaps that's fitting: racism hammers away at people in tiny and huge events repeated day after day. Says Derricotte, "My skin causes certain problems continuously, problems that open the issue of racism over and over like a wound." [via]
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Captivityby Toi DerricotteISBN 0822954222 (0-8229-5422-2)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Empress of the Death Houseby Toi DerricotteISBN 091641812X (0-916418-12-X)
Softcover, Michigan State Univ Pr
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Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decadeby Toi Derricotte , Carolyn Micklem, Cornelius Eady, Camille T. DungyISBN 0472069241 (0-472-06924-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Natural Birthby Toi DerricotteISBN 1563411202 (1-56341-120-2)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services - Natural Birth: Poems: ISBN 0895941015 (0-89594-101-5)
Softcover, Crossing Press - Natural Birth: ISBN 0895941023 (0-89594-102-3)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Pr - Natural Birth: ISBN 1563411202 (1-56341-120-2)
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Tenderby Toi DerricotteISBN 0822956403 (0-8229-5640-3)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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