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| September 1997 |
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96 pages
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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 subject matter, yet extremely readable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toi Derricotte has published four books of poems, The Empress of the Death House, Natural Birth, Captivity, and Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, and an award-winning memoir, The Black Notebooks. She has won numerous awards including two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. She is the co-founder of Cave Canem, the historic first workshop/retreat for African American poets. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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“In her fourth book, the award-winning Derricotte focuses on the aftermath of slavery, continued sexism and violence within the family. These poems plunge into the psychology of race and gender and other key components of identity. . . . Her work reaches out into the black and white and comes up with meaning that is often complex and rich—in short, gray. . . . Derricotte delivers frankness and hope through her thoughtful probing of encounters with complex racial and sexual relations.” “Part of the charm of Derricotte's work—despite its raw and upsetting subject matter—is its extreme readability, from start to finish. In plain language that does not settle for simplicity or cliché, these poems probe being at its root—sexually, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually—and recount how violence—both physical and mental—ravages the self. . . . Recommended for all poetry collections.”—Library Journal “Raw, honest and provocative. It hits those vulnerable spots in us where we question our openness to such issues as racial harmony and sexual freedom. . . . This is an emotionally compelling collection, one that lives for the reader in its stark images.”—Kliatt “Toi Derricotte seems to write from a place deep in her body. . . . I am grateful for her honesty, her exactness, her sense of justice and openness to love. . . . Derricotte's language feels, as usual, fresh and urgent, but Tender is a highly crafted volume, with poems lodged in an intricate structure. . . . Derricotte's range of diction, form, and subject is grand.”—Women's Review of Books—Publishers Weekly "Part of the charm of Derricotte's work - despite its raw and upsetting subject matter - is its extreme readability, from start to finish. In plain language that does not settle for simplicity or cliché, these poems probe being at its root - sexually, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually - and recount how violence-both physical and mental-ravages the self. . . . Recommended for all poetry collections." —Library Journal "Raw, honest and provocative. It hits those vulnerable spots in us where we question our openness to such issues as racial harmony and sexual freedom. . . . This is an emotionally compelling collection, one that lives for the reader in its stark images." —Kliatt "Derricotte's language feels, as usual, fresh and urgent, but Tender is a highly crafted volume, with poems lodged in an intricate structure. . . . Derricotte's range of diction, form, and subject is grand." —Women's Review of Books close
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