Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky

by Thylias Moss

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

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Thylias 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.

Reviews

[Jun Kang · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heard about Thylias Moss on Maya Angelou's black history month special and I'm so glad I did. Really beautiful and mindboggling poetry... I've dog eared so many favorites.