Truth is Form
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Her mother wouldn’t let her touchThe classics. Wrapped in plastic,She kept the family treasures clean.Our mothers teach us what we want.Our bodies refuse to stay thin. [End Page 509]
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.
