Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Mama Phife Represents (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hip-hop icon Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor passed away in March, 2016 at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes.

A Tribe Called Quest is legendary. They are one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history. They currently average more than 3 million listeners per month on Spotify. They're last album, released months after Phife's death, was widely lauded the New York Times.

Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller, an IndieNext pick, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and widely lauded at NPR, Buzzfeed, AV Club, The Rumpus, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is an award-winning poet. She is the recipient of numerous awards including 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.

At a time in the United States when so many Black mothers are losing their Black children - through illness and violence - this book stands as a testament to the deep, ground-shifting impact of loss across generations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642593860
• Artikelnr.: 60336053

Autorenporträt

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.