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Hotel Room Toi Derricotte (bio) Hotel room:Curtains buried like a seedSnow melts soft nightlightInvisible drawn pillowsOn the other side writing [End Page 517] 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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