Mama Phife represents / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Phife Dawg, 1970-2016.
• Parental grief.
• Autobiography--African American authors.

Genre:

• Laments.
• Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Mama Phife represents : a verse memoir

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois Haymarket Books, 2021.

Summary:

"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"--publisher website.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: I. The Summer Phife Was Born
• II. Apricot Begonias
• III. Mama Phife
• IV. Funky Diabetic.

ISBN:

• 1642592668
• 9781642592665

OCLC:

1144101292