Tamara Tifareth: 2 books

A riveting depiction of one woman’s victorious struggle to stake out a unique place in the American Noughties, Tamara: The Woman Who Conquered Baltimore captures the intersection of addiction, poverty, sexism, and racism in a way few narratives have managed. Set almost entirely in the city of Baltimore,...

The uncommon lines of Tamara Tifareth’s poems reflect the contours of a young woman’s heart and mind as she expresses bizarre emotional truths in a language of astonishing rage, range, and resonance: soaring beauty alternates with sublime laughter, which in turn gives rise to skepticism, cynicism...