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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.
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.
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
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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