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Book

Mama Phife represents

Call Number

  • 811 B7893 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2021]

Physical Description

xi, 123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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"--

Contents

  • The summer Phife was born
  • Apricot begonias
  • Mama Phife
  • Funky diabetic.

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