by Toi Derricotte
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Paper: 978-0-8229-6583-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8677-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-4566-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3554.E73I3 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner, 2020 Frost Medal
Finalist, 2019 National Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2020 BCALA Literary Awards


Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey—a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a record of one woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poem is an act of victory as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth.
 
This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.

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