Answer: Derive
Explanation:
In this sentence the incorrect verb is derives and the correct one is derive.
Derive is considering transitional verb and the meaning of it is, for example, to receive or to take something from some source which in this case is correct since in sentence we have that something is derived from the source, in this case, hand-operated devices and other.
First person
It takes a bit of reading into the passage to see what point of view it is, because there is little indication in the first paragraph. The first indication that it is written in first person is the use of "us" at the end of that first paragraph. Then, in the subsequent paragraphs the reader sees that the author uses "I" several times, indicating first person perspective.
Answer:
a poem which reveals the pain and numbness of a person left alone in the racial world.
