Reports of the Saints
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Every messenger from the other sidesays first:(getting us ready like a good lover):Do not be afraid.
They drowse over usLike spaceships;Or they float uplike orange jellyfish. [End Page 508]
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.
