I : new & selected poems /
I : new and selected poems
Toi Derricotte.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Preface to the New and Selected Poems; Speculations about ""I; After all those years of fear and raging in my poems; After the Gwendolyn Brooks reading; Among school children; As my writing changes I think with sorrow of those who couldn't change; Biographia Literaria Africana; Blessed angels; Elegy for my husband; The enthusiast; The exchange; Gifts from the dead; Glimpse; Black woman as Magician at CVS; The most surprising and necessary ingredient in my mother's spaghetti sauce; Bad Dad; Glimpse; I count on you invisible; I give in to an old desire; The intimates The intimatesOn a woman who excuses herself from the table, even in restaurants, to brush her teeth; Homage; Jerry Stern's friendship; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Lauds; Midnight: Long Train Passing; My father in old age; A nap; New Orleans palmetto bug; 1. False Gods; 2. Why the giant palmetto bugs in New Orleans run toward you when you are screaming at them to go away; Note; Pantoum for the Broken; The Peaches of August; The permission; The proof; Rereading Jerry Stern; Sex in old age; Streaming; Summer evening at Still Point Telly redux: Sharon asks me to send a picture of little fishie TellyWatching a roach give birth on YouTube, I think of Lucille Clifton meeting God; What are you?; The Empress of the Death House; sleeping with mr. death; the story of a very broken lady; the mirror poems; the face/as it must be/of love; doll poem; new lady godiva; The Grandmother Poems; The Empress of the Death House; The Feeding; The Funeral Parade; from a group of poems thinking about Anne Sexton on the anniversary of her death; unburying the bird; Natural Birth; Introduction: Writing Natural Birth; november Holy cross hospitalmaternity; 10:29; transition; delivery; in knowledge of young boys; Captivity; The Minks; Blackbottom; Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing; St. Peter Claver; The Weakness; Fires in Childhood; High School; Hamtramck: The Polish Women; The Struggle; Before Making Love; On Stopping Late in the Afternoon for Steamed Dumplings; Stuck; Squeaky Bed; The Good Old Dog; The Promise; For a Man Who Speaks with Birds; Touching/Not Touching: My Mother; My Father Still Sleeping after Surgery; Boy at the Paterson Falls; Fears of the Eighth Grade; The Furious Boy; In an Urban School The Polishers of BrassFor the Dishwasher at Boothman's; Plaid Pants; Books; Allen Ginsberg; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses; A Note on My Son's Face; Tender; Preface; Tender; Exits from Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Journey; The Tour; Tourists' Lunch; Beneath Elmina; Above Elmina; Slavery; Power; Market; When My Father Was Beating Me; Black Boys Play the Classics; Brother; Family Secrets; After a Reading at a Black College; For Black Women Who Are Afraid; Passing; Bookstore; Invisible Dreams; Two Poems; Peripheral; Bird; 1:30 A.M.; Dead Baby Speaks