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The pitt professor and cave canem cofounder releases her fifth collection. Toi derricotte has published five collections of poetry, most recently, the undertakers daughter 2011. In 2016, she and eady accepted the national book foundations literarian award for outstanding service to the american literary community on behalf of cave canem. She received the 2012 paterson poetry prize for sustained literary achievement and the 2012 penvoelcker award for poetry, as well as fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, the.
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