Book
Mama Phife represents
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.