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Tokyo Butter: Poems
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 who has left the living; for hints of Cindy Song, a college student missing since 2001; and for manifestations of her true self in the archaic wings of science.
Moss' imagination is, as always, ravenous, interrogativebut in Tokyo Butter there is an urgency amidst the jagged, beautiful verse that has become her trademark.
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 who has left the living; for hints of Cindy Song, a college student missing since 2001; and for manifestations of her true self in the archaic wings of science.
Moss' imagination is, as always, ravenous, interrogativebut in Tokyo Butter there is an urgency amidst the jagged, beautiful verse that has become her trademark.
- GenresPoetry
134 pages, Hardcover
First published December 15, 2006
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Thylias Moss
29 books28 followersThylias Moss is a multiracial maker, an award-winning poet, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant, and twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
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August 20, 2008
Well, I kind of read it, at any rate. This one's on loan from Trina Burke, and I really just can't do it. I think the failing is more with me than the poems...they are long, and meandering, and a little hard to parse. I don't normally have so much trouble with putting in effort to read hard poems, but I just can't seem to make it through.
July 29, 2007
The best book of poetry I have read by a contemporary in thirty-five years. (Detailed Review Will Follow)
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