University of Pittsburgh Press, paperback
Publication Date: October 24, 2011
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"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."
--Washington Post on Captivity
In plain language that does not settle for simplicity or cliche, these poems probe being at its root--sexually, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually--and recount how violence, both physical and mental, ravages the self.
-- Library Journal on Tender
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 on Captivity
