Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte
Reading Date: Wednesday, February 19, 1992
Welcome and Introduction-12163
By Alison Hawthorne Deming; recording begins mid-sentence.
Opening Remarks and "The Empress of the Death House"-12164
Published version bears the title "The Feeding." Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. The Empress of the Death House. Detroit: Lotus Press, 1978.
"I say hello, oracle, kind mother..."-12165
Unpublished.
"Delivery"-12166
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Natural Birth. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1983.
"Lightning Bug"-12167
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
"Kin"-12168
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
"Blackbottom"-12169
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
"The Minks"-12170
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
"The Good Old Dog"-12171
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
"Allen Ginsberg"-12172
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Captivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
"For a Student Who Was Molested"-12173
Unpublished.
"Dead Baby Speaks"-12174
Differs from published version. Recording cuts out from 5:37 to 5:39.
Annotation:
Derricotte, Toi. Tender. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
"World"-12175
Sung by Toi Derricotte. Unpublished.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Toi Derricotte reads from Natural Birth (1983), Captivity (1989), The Empress of the Death House (1991), Tender (1997), and The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey (1997).
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