Arrival: Poems

By Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135140
• ISBN13: 9780810135147
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.4"