{"product_id":"derricotte-toi-undertakerpb","title":"Derricotte, Toi: The Undertaker's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eOctober 24, 2011\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptivity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- \u003c\/span\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cspan\u003e on \u003c\/span\u003eTender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToi 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- Sharon Olds on Captivity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817199284247,"sku":"9780822962007","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/7693989-L.jpg?v=1703281998","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/derricotte-toi-undertakerpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}