Toi Derricotte
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Educator | Poet | Memoirist
2020 Recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry
The blessed angels
How much like
angels are these tall
gladiolas in a vase on my coffee
table, as if in a bunch
whispering. How slender
and artless, how scandalously
alive, each with its own
humors and pulse. Each weight-
bearing stem is the stem
of a thought through which
aspires the blood-metal of stars. Each heart
is a gift for the king. When
I was a child, my mother and aunts
would sit in the kitchen
gossiping. One would tip
her head toward me, “Little Ears,”
she’d warn, and the whole room
went silent. Now, before sunrise,
what secrets I am told!—being
quieter than blossoms and near invisible.
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“I” is a journey of enduring and vital love and joy, of sadness and anger, of incisive moral witness to America’s violence and racism, written by an “I” who “is the one I was most // True to.” Driven by a Detroit-born, soul base line like her Detroit peer Aretha Franklin, Derricotte’s voice is deeply infused with the deepest spiritual power. Her extraordinary “I” is our journey, too.”
–Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems
“Derricotte’s poems push readers and practitioners into the hard work of seeing with rigor, intelligence, and grace. Her intellect and imagination continue to forge new territory in the field of poetry, challenging what we think a poem might be and what we think it might do in the world.” —Dan Chiasson, Aracelis Girmay & A. Van Jordan, PEN/Voelcker Award Citation
“Honest, fine-honed, deceptively simple. . . deadly accurate, ‘more merciless to herself than history,’ Toi Derricotte’s poems are as unique as her point of view. And it is the specificity, the fine observation of that viewpoint…which makes it at once accessible and revelatory to readers, whatever their origins, whatever their preconceptions of the possibilities of poetry.”
—Marilyn Hacker
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Toi Derricotte is represented by The Shipman Agency. Please contact them for booking information.
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TOI DERRICOTTE receives the WALLACE STEVENS AWARD for 2021There is too much to say – a virtual reading2020 Frost Medalist, Toi DerricotteRoss Gay: Five Books of DelightA Reading by Toi Derricotte, Adrian Matejka, and Mai Der Vang, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets — AWP 2019Recent Comments
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