Thylias moss biography of mahatma

A National Poetry Series selection. A joyful discovery, it contains poems that present the black American experience with heightened intensity 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, erudition -- all that is good spirals into regions of horror and grotesque inconsistency with consequences as contemporary as headlines and as eternal as myth.

Thylias moss biography of mahatma: The poem "Gandhi Mala Bhetla"

Intense and brilliantly sustained, these poems limn the humane being tested, the plunge into strangeness, and finally recovery, the salvaging of wonder after all. Named by Black Issues as the best poetry book of , 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 childhood—and her growing need for self-determination. Standing in her path, waiting to quash her spirit, is her master, the cunning Peter Perry, "a collector of rare things" who aims to add Varl herself to his perverse assortment of oddities.

Written in gorgeous verse, it is an explosion of life in the face of servitude. Moss was born Thylias Rebecca Brasier, in a working-class family in Ohio. Her Native American father was a tire recapper, and her mother a maid.