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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Cheryl Boyce-TaylorPublish date:1/19/2021Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592665ISBN-10:1642592668UPC:9781642592665Book Category:Poetry, MusicBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Genres & StylesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, Rap & Hip HopSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC4FQNGKGM

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in this intimate collection.

Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother's grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning. Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments of their lives show a great love between mother and son. Artist and artist, teacher and friend. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's gift includes drawings, emails, hip-hop lyrics, and notes Malik wrote to his parents beginning at age eight. Both elegy and praise song, there is joy and sorrow, healing, and a mother's triumphant heart that rises and blooms again.


Mama Phife Represents has been awarded the 2022 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry by The Publishing Triangle

Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592665ISBN-10:1642592668UPC:9781642592665Book Category:Poetry, MusicBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Genres & StylesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, Rap & Hip HopSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC4FQNGKGM

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival(2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.

The founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, Boyce-Taylor is also a poetry judge for the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. She has led workshops for Cave Canem, Poets & Writers, and the Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center. Her poetry has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater and the National Endowment for the Arts for Ronald K. Brown's Evidence, A Dance Company.

Boyce-Taylor is the recipient of the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award and a VONA fellow. Her life papers and portfolio are stored at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.


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