Arrival: Poems

Finalist, 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize

ARRIVAL is a poetic love story between mother and daughter. The poems are road maps, intertwining generations with a narrative beginning in 1950 with a woman who is pregnant with twins. In her seventh month she delivers a stillborn boy and a baby girl weighing less than two pounds. From there, the evocation of a series of catastrophic family events brings forth Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's power to strip her readers down to their most vulnerable. Boyce-Taylor is steeped in the narratives of Trinidad and New York City, colored with metaphorical stew-pot images. She revels in her lyrical range as she weaves these poetic retellings of family, place, and identity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl
Published: 06/15/2017
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
ISBN: 9780810135147
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.10w x 0.30d