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ARRIVAL

Poems

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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Finalist, 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize ARRIVAL is a poetic love story between mother and daughter. The poems are road maps, intertwining generations with a narrative beginning in 1950 with a woman who is pregnant with twins. In her seventh month she delivers a stillborn boy and a baby girl weighing less than two pounds. From there, the evocation of a series of catastrophic family events brings forth Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s power to strip her readers down to their most vulnerable. Boyce-Taylor is steeped in the narratives of Trinidad and New York City, colored with metaphorical stew-pot images. She revels in her lyrical range as she weaves these poetic retellings of family, place, and identity.

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Northwestern University Press

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ISBN 10

0810135159

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9780810135154

Mama Phife Represents

A Memoir

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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Mama Phife Represents

A Memoir

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body’s lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child.

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129

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Haymarket Books

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ISBN 10

1642593869

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9781642593860

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

Poems

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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We Are Not Wearing Helmets

Poems

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered through the eyes of Cheryl Boyce‐Taylor, an immigrant living in New York City. For many women of color, aging in America means experiencing a lack of proper medical treatment, inhumane living conditions, poor nutrition, and often isolation. Many seniors feel thrown away, useless, and vulnerable. These poems challenge the injustices of ageism, racism, and oppression with rage, forgiveness, honor, and endurance. During these rough political times, they are salve and balm. Born in Trinidad and having grown up in Queens, Boyce‐Taylor creates a framework for her own experience out of the life experiences and work of beloved Black women in history. She salutes the women who have lifted her, including Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ntozake Shange, and Winnie Mandela, as well as her mother, Eugenia Boyce, and her beloved daughter‐in‐law, Deisha Head Taylor. The poems in this collection are unapologetic, fierce, and confrontational while remaining caring and intimate. They stand strong in the face of adversity and boldly demand what is owed while still honoring and cherishing what is loved.

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114

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Northwestern University Press

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0810144247

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9780810144248

The Limitless Heart

New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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The Limitless Heart

New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring. With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s work explores questions of immigration, motherhood, and queer sensuality, among other themes. Grief is both an anchor and a door throughout Boyce-Taylor’s poetry, as seen in Mama Phife Represents, a hybrid of memoir and verse on the death of her son, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest. Questions regarding Blackness and Black womanhood in the United States are stitched throughout her books, and Boyce-Taylor leans into a more overtly defiant political register in her latest work, We Are Not Wearing Helmets, while maintaining the connective spine of the Trinidadian dialect that appears throughout all her work. Selections from these books, as well as her other poetry collections, appear in this new volume. Curated from Boyce-Taylor’s body of work, The Limitless Heart encapsulates her progression as a writer throughout the decades of her highly successful career.

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168

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Haymarket Books

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ISBN 13

9798888900413

ARRIVAL

Poems

By: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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Archive of Style

New and Selected Poems

By: Cheryl Clarke

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Archive of Style

New and Selected Poems

By: Cheryl Clarke

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates in Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems, a long-awaited retrospective of the indelible work of a Black feminist, community and LGBTQ activist, and educator. This collection features carefully curated poems from Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1982), Living as a Lesbian (1986), The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005 (2006), By My Precise Haircut (2016), and Targets (2019). Together these works show a brilliant thinker who has profoundly impacted generations of writers and activists. Clarke’s poetry and essays, centered around the Black, lesbian, feminist experience, have attracted an audience around the world. Her essays, “Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance” and “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community” revolutionized the thinking about lesbians of color and the struggle against homophobia. Her poetry and non-fiction have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and assigned in women and sexuality courses globally. Having published since 1977, Clarke and her work have become a foundational part of LGBTQ literature and activism. Archive of Style is a celebration and homage to one of American literature’s Black Women literary warriors

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Northwestern University Press

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0810147610

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9780810147614

Book's by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL

Mama Phife Represents

Mama Phife Represents

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

The Limitless Heart

The Limitless Heart

ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

Archive of Style

Archive of Style

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