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NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE by TOI DERRICOTTE

Poet Analysis

First Line: TONIGHT, I LOOK, THUNDERSTRUCK %AT THE GOLD HEAD OF MY GRANDCHILD
Last Line: THE WORST IS TRUE. %EVERYTHING YOU DID NOT WANT TO KNOW
Subject(s): ETHNIC GROUPS - UNITED STATES; LOSS; MINORITIES - UNITED STATES; MOVING AND MOVERS; REFUGEES; U.S. - IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION; U.S. - RACE RELATIONS;

Poem Sources:

IN SEARCH OF COLOR EVERYWHERE: A COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY.
  MILLER, E. ETHELBERT (ED.)
  (1994)
 
UNSETTLING AMERICA; AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL POETRY.
  GILLAN, MARIA MAZZIOTTI & GILLAN, JENNIFER (EDS.)
  (1994)
 
AMERICAN DIASPORA; POETRY OF DISPLACEMENT. EDITED BY VIRGIL SUAREZ AND RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE.
  SUAREZ, VIRGIL (ED.)
  (2001)
 
CALLALOO, 33V10#4, FALL /87.
  (1987)
 
CAPTIVITY.
  DERRICOTTE, TOI
  (1989)
 



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