Toi Derricotte: Celebration & Book Launch

Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/07/2019
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
City Of Asylum/Pittsburgh

Categories


Participate in a special night celebrating a newly published selection of works by award winning poet and University of Pittsburgh professor Toi Derricotte.

The taboo, the restricted and the repressed often figure prominently in Derricotte’s poems. Her new collection, 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, finding a path through repressive forces to speak with both beauty and truth.

After the reading will be a screening of the documentary film “Strong Words: The Art of Toi Derricotte.”

 



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