Night When Moon Follows

Poetry. African American Studies. Cheryl Boyce Taylor is a poet born in Trinidad and transplanted to New York; her verse is saturated with the music of her homes. Joan Larkin writes, Listen to this rich, musical, intimate voice, at home in the speech of New York and Trinidad, ripe to bursting with love of luscious sounds. In the strong cadences of these new poems, Cheryl Boyce Taylor speaks with authority ... Taylor is a spell-spinner.