The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)

The Limitless Heart is a collection of poetry by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor that explores themes of love, grief, immigration, motherhood, and queer sensuality. It encompasses the breadth of her career and showcases her progression as a writer.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 17 October 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's remarkable career is captured in The Limitless Heart, a poignant time capsule that unveils the boundless love, care, grief, and resilience that infuse her work. Through her profound empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor delves into profound themes such as immigration, motherhood, and queer sensuality. Grief serves as both an anchor and a gateway throughout her poetry, as exemplified in Mama Phife Represents, a hybrid of memoir and verse that explores the death of her son, Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest. Her books intricately weave questions about Blackness and Black womanhood in the United States, while her latest work, We Are Not Wearing Helmets, takes a more overtly defiant political stance while maintaining the connective essence of the Trinidadian dialect that permeates her entire body of work. This new volume showcases selections from her extensive body of work, showcasing her evolution as a writer over the course of her illustrious career.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642599725