Toi Derricotte

Collections of Poetry

 

• The Undertaker’s Daughter; University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011

 

• Tender; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997

 

• Captivity; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989; second printing,    1991; third printing, 1993; fourth printing, 1995

 

• Natural Birth; The Crossing Press, 1983; republished by    Firebrand Press, 2000

 

•The Empress of the Death House; Lotus Press, 1978; second printing,    1989

 

 

Memoir

 

• Bread on the Water: Recollections of a “Li’L Half-White, Stuck-up Nigga    Girl,” by Antonia Baquet; eds. Toi Derricotte & Ellen Smith;

   self-published, 2007

 

• Noire, la Couleur de ma Peau Blanche; Kiron/Editions du Félin, 2000;    translation of The Black Notebooks into French by Phillippe    Moreau

 

• The Black Notebooks; W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

 

 

Poetry Anthology

 

• Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade;    eds. Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady, asst. ed. Camille Dungy;    University of Michigan Press, 2006

  

Selected Anthologies

 

• Women’s Work; eds. Eva Salzman & Amy Wack; Seren Press,    2009

 

• 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology; eds. Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl;    Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2009

 

• Poems from the Women’s Movement; ed. Honor Moore, American    Poets Project; The Library of America, 2009

 

• Poems of Nature; ed. William Roetzheim; Level 4 Press Inc., 2009

 

• When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by    American Women; ed. Andrea Hollander Budy; Autumn House    Press 2008

 

• The Sixth Wave; eds. Quraysh Ali Lansana & Toni Asante    Lightfoot; Just Us Books Inc., 2008

 

• Persimmon Tree An Online Literary Magazine; ed. Chana Bloch; 2008

 

• Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, 25th Anniversary Edition;

   ed. Juanita Torrence-Thompson; 2007

 

• Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems; eds. Joy Katz & Kevin    Prufer; University of Illinois Press, 2007

 

• Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and

   Child-Rearing; eds. Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff;    University Press of New England, 2007

 

• An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, Joyful Noise; ed. Robert    Strong; Autumn House Press, 2007

 

• After the Bell, Contemporary American Prose about School; eds. Maggie    Anderson & David Hassler; University of Iowa Press, 2007

 

• Mobius, The Poetry Magazine; ed. Juanita Torrence-Thompson;    September 2006

 

• The Best American Essays 2006;<;/span> ed. Laurie Slater; Houghton    Mifflin, 2006

 

• Lifelines, New and Collected Letters from Famous People About Their    Favourite Poem; ed. Niall MacMonagle; Town House Dublin, 2006