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Instead, TM takes a highly successful and radical approach to poetry- she writes it well. Having known her work from before I knew better than to rely on back cover blurbery to tell me whether or not to purchase the book. She knows that language is both the individual and the community. She has a sense of history, the complexity and variety of Black experience in America.

What drama, humor, imagination, intelligence and range of subject matter these poems have! Thylias Moss is already a major figure in contemporary American poetry. While TM often tells a tale in her poems the term visionary is one of those toss-abouts that the claimant is never compelled to describe. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, etc.

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Some might say that vision can also be inward, with poets like Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson. Is she political and religious? There are certainly elements of those things, but to label her either political or religious is to delimit her. She writes poems that are political and religious, but even they are not merely political and religious poems.