The Women's Review of Books, May 1st, 1998
Toi Derricotte seems to write from a place deep in her body. (She quotes Red Smith approvingly: "There is nothing to writing; all you have to do is sit down and open up a vein.") She is the author of three highly acclaimed books of poetry - Natural Birth The Empress of the Death House, Captivity - co-founder of Cave Canem, a workshop retreat for African American poets, and winner of numerous awards.
In sections of Tender, her new book of poems, and in her first prose book, The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey, Derricotte, a light-skinned black woman, focuses intensely and wonderfully on...
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