UA Poetry Center
Toi Derricotte reads from her first three collections: The Empress of the Death House (1978), Natural Birth (1983), and Captivity (1989). She also reads poems and prose that would later be collected in Tender (1997) and The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey (1997), along with two unpublished poems, including one written in Tucson the night before this reading. She closes by singing an original song.
By Alison Hawthorne Deming; recording begins mid-sentence.
Published version bears the title "The Feeding." Differs slightly from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. The Empress of the Death House. Detroit: Lotus Press, 1978.
Unpublished.
Differs from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. Natural Birth. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1983.
Differs from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Differs from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Differs slightly from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Differs slightly from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Differs slightly from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Differs slightly from published version.
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Unpublished.
Differs from published version. Recording cuts out from 5:37 to 5:39.
Derricotte, Toi. Tender. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
Sung by Toi Derricotte. Unpublished.
