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Books by Thylias Moss
  | | Tokyo Butter(1st Edition) Poems by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-319-8, ISBN: 0-89255-319-7 "From the acclaimed, award-winning poet, this new collection is a gripping search for life and truth.From Thylias Moss, one of America's most innovative poets, comes Tokyo Butter, perhaps her most innovative book to date. Inventing new poetics as she goes, Moss applies her exhilarating capacity for language to a synthesis of the personal, the historical, and the cultural. She searches searches for vestiges of Deirdre, a beloved cousin wh ..." |
 | | Slave Moth(4th Edition) A Narrative in Verse by Thylias Moss Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2006 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-318-1, ISBN: 0-89255-318-9 "Named by Black Issues as the best poetry book of 2004, this is the astonishing story of a slave girl in the antebellum South.This critically acclaimed verse-novel follows the unforgettable Varl, a slave on a plantation in Tennessee, on her path to freedom. Wise beyond her years and wildly creative, Varl must choose between the only life she's known—her Mamalee, her friends (especially her beloved Dob), the farmland she's explored since ..." |
 | | Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky(1st Edition) Poems by Thylias Moss, Charles Simic Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2003 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-157-6, ISBN: 0-89255-157-7 "A 1991 National Poetry Series selection. "One of the year's most powerful books of any genre...A joyful discovery, [it] contains poems that present the black American experience with heightened intensity...[with] language at once immediate and transcendent..."—Grace Shulman, The Nation" |
 | | Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler(1st Edition) Poems by Thylias Moss Paperback, 117 Pages, Published 1999 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-243-6, ISBN: 0-89255-243-3 "The latest volume of this dazzling poet's work, urgent poems in which words, images, ideas, music, and feelings are pushed to their ultimate capacity. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; a Village Voice Favorite Book of 1998. The latest volume of this important and highly original poet's work is a three-part journey into the pathology of human emotions. In a cascade of language-ordinary speech, preaching, song, banter, ..." |
 | | Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities' Red Dress Code(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-475-1, ISBN: 0-89255-475-4 "This career-spanning volume by Thylias Moss, one of America’s most revered literary innovators, conveys the dazzling spectrum of her hypnotic poetic output, written over the past thirty-five years and including selections from each previous book as well as previously unpublished new poems. A poet whose innovations have influenced generations of writers, Thylias Moss is a sort of taxonomist-preacher, whose profound meditation on American ..." |
 | | Pyramid of Bone(1st Edition) (Callaloo Poetry Series) by Thylias Moss, Charles H. Rowell Paperback, 43 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1202-8, ISBN: 0-8139-1202-4 "Although many of Moss’s poems discuss race and gender, these subjects are, explains scholar Langdon Hammer, simply "starting points for her work…her poetry makes such facts of identity seem unfamiliar, their meanings not to be predicted, unavailable to the naked eye." Known for startling metaphors and vivid imagery, Moss’s work demonstrates an expansive imagination that seeks to connect at times wildly disparate subjects." |
 | | Small Congregations (The American Poetry) by Thylias Moss Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1999 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-363-5, ISBN: 0-88001-363-X "Thylias Moss (b. 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children's books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poam s, products of acts of making, related to her work in Limited Fork Theory. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Artis ..." |
 | | Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress(1st Edition) by Thylias Moss Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-380-79362-4, ISBN: 0-380-79362-8 "Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . .With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the pow ..." |
 | | Slave Moth(1st Edition) A Narrative in Verse by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2004 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-289-4, ISBN: 0-89255-289-1 "A narrative poem looks at the life of a slave girl in Tennessee and her struggle for freedom." |
 | | Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress(1st Edition) by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 259 Pages, Published 1998 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-380-97550-1, ISBN: 0-380-97550-5 "Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . .With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the pow ..." |
 | | Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler(1st Edition) Poems by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 117 Pages, Published 1998 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-229-0, ISBN: 0-89255-229-8 "The latest volume of this dazzling poet's work, urgent poems in which words, images, ideas, music, and feelings are pushed to their ultimate capacity. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; a Village Voice Favorite Book of 1998. The latest volume of this important and highly original poet's work is a three-part journey into the pathology of human emotions. In a cascade of language-ordinary speech, preaching, song, banter, ..." |
 | | Small Congregations(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems (American Poetry Series) by Thylias Moss Hardcover, 158 Pages, Published 1999 by Ecco Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-289-8, ISBN: 0-88001-289-7 "Book by Moss, Thylias" |
 | | I Want to Be by Thylias Moss, Jerry Pinkney Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1993 by Dial Books Young Rdrs ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-1287-4, ISBN: 0-8037-1287-1 |
 | | I Want to Be(Reprint) (Picture Puffins) by Thylias Moss, Jerry Pinkney Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1998 by Puffin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-056286-6, ISBN: 0-14-056286-9 "Young readers accompany a young girl on a journey into the marvelous realms of imagination and possibility when she is asked "What do you want to be?" in a unique poetical fantasy complemented with vibrant and beautiful illustrations. Reprint." |
 | | HOSIERY SEAMS ON A BOWLEGGED WOMAN . by Thylias Moss ISBN-13: 978-0-318-18369-5, ISBN: 0-318-18369-2 |
 | | Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress by Thylias Moss Library, Published 1999 by Bt Bound ISBN-13: 978-0-613-17545-6, ISBN: 0-613-17545-X |
 | | I Want to Be(Reprint) (Picture Puffins) by Thylias Moss Turtleback, Published 1998 by Demco Media ISBN-13: 978-0-606-13511-5, ISBN: 0-606-13511-1 |
 | | Somewhere Else Right Now by Thylias Moss Library, Published 1996 by Dutton And Dial ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-1747-3, ISBN: 0-8037-1747-4 |
 | | Somewhere Else Right Now by Thylias Moss, Beth Peck Hardcover, Published 1996 by E P Dutton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-1746-6, ISBN: 0-8037-1746-6 |
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