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Autographed 'CAPTIVITY' Paperback by Toi Derricotte
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- “aee below”
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Signed By
- Toi Derricotte
- Signed
- Yes
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780822954224
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822954222
ISBN-13
9780822954224
eBay Product ID (ePID)
513863
Product Key Features
Book Title
Captivity
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-031840
Reviews
"There are poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart. Even after you think you've got a handle on a particular passage--how that imagery works to support the narrative, the interlocking patterns of the observed adn the unsaid--something elusive keeps sending you back to the pa≥ and with each new reading, another layer of mystery will gently exhale and open up. Much like a favorite grandparent's parable-disguised-as-an-anecdote, the poem will unfoldwhen you need it but least expect it, illuminating its revelations as you grow into the lessons life has to offer." --Washington Post, " Captivity is a work of deep power and music. In the title poem, the speaker's uncle displays animal pelts, blowing on the fur to show us its 'shining underlife.' Toi Derricotte's poems show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escaped--and paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today." --Sharon Olds, "Toi Derricotte has lifted herself, and so she is able to transform experience into significant thought." -Louis Simpson, "Toi Derricotte has lifted herself, and so she is able to transform experience into significant thought." --Louis Simpson, “There are poems that stick with you like a song that won’t stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart. Even after you think you’ve got a handle on a particular passage--how that imagery works to support the narrative, the interlocking patterns of the observed adn the unsaid--something elusive keeps sending you back to the pa≥ and with each new reading, another layer of mystery will gently exhale and open up. Much like a favorite grandparent’s parable-disguised-as-an-anecdote, the poem will unofld when you need it but least expect it, illuminating its revelations as you grow into the lessons life has to offer.� --The Washington Post, "There are poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart. Even after you think you've got a handle on a particular passage--how that imagery works to support the narrative, the interlocking patterns of the observed adn the unsaid--something elusive keeps sending you back to the page; and with each new reading, another layer of mystery will gently exhale and open up. Much like a favorite grandparent's parable-disguised-as-an-anecdote, the poem will unfoldwhen you need it but least expect it, illuminating its revelations as you grow into the lessons life has to offer." --Washington Post, " Captivity is a work of deep power and music. In the title poem, the speaker's uncle displays animal pelts, blowing on the fur to show us its 'shining underlife.' Toi Derricotte's poems show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escaped-and paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today." -Sharon Olds
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
811.54
Synopsis
What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God., What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.E73C37 1989
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