The Return

The Return Toi Derricotte (bio) The abused child is always back thereSteering the bus. I want to writeAs if there’s nothing between us,A membrane that can be pulledAway like a magician’s scarf. [End Page 510] Toi Derricotte TOI DERRICOTTE is the author of a number of books of poems, including The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Tender (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, and Captivity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012, she is a Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. Copyright © 2014 The Johns Hopkins University Press

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