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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of five previous collections of poetry-We Are Not Wearing Helmets, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, and Arrival-and a memoir and poetic tribute to her son, Mama Phife Represents. A VONA fellow and a teaching artist, Boyce-Taylor is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, and she has led numerous poetry workshops for Cave Canem, the New York Public Library, Urban Word NYC, and Poets House, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.
“Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is among the giants of Caribbean women’s
poetry. This beautiful book is the exquisite distillation of over
forty years of work. In the Limitless Heart, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is
at the height of her poetic powers.”
—Jacqueline Johnson, author of A Woman’s Season
“At the heart of this new work she meditates deeply on what being a
Black woman in America looks like, what growing older and seeing
her mother’s face in the mirror feels like and how to navigate
survival in uncertain times. We are so lucky to have these poems
and this poet in the world; overflowing with so much living.”
—Yesenia Montilla, author of Muse Found in a Colonized Body
“This is what poetry should be: a capture of real life, a song for
what can be, the unabashed truth. Her work is a rock on which
future poets can build.”
—Nancy Mercado, PhD, American Book Award for Lifetime
Achievement
“This spectacularly collected poetry of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a
revolutionary and delectable West Indian and American pelau dish of
inventive and colossal wordplay meshed with history, culture,
grief, and the quest for eternal love in all forms.”
—Kevin Powell, author of The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential
Writings and Conversations
I clearly expect The Limitless Heart to situate Boyce-Taylor in the
pantheon of talented poets of the 20th and 21st Century.
—Randall Horton, author of #289-128: Poems, winner of the 2021
American Book Award
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