Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Author
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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...
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