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Mama Phife Represents: A Memoir Hardback - 2021

by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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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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  • Title Mama Phife Represents: A Memoir
  • Author Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Haymarket Books
  • Publication date 2021-01-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781642594041 / 1642594040
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.38 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, African American women
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021936827
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

About the author

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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