Thylias Moss
Autor de I Want to Be (Picture Puffins)
Sobre El Autor
Thylias Moss is Professor of English at University of Michigan.
Créditos de la imagen: Academy of American Poets
Obras de Thylias Moss
Obras relacionadas
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Contribuidor — 91 copias
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Moss, Thylias
- Nombre legal
- Moss, Thylias
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- Oberlin College (BA)
University of New Hampshire (MA) - Premios y honores
- Whiting Writers' Award (1991)
- Biografía breve
- Thylias Moss is a multiracial maker, an award-winnng poet, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant, twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry,
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- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 21
- Miembros
- 336
- Popularidad
- #70,811
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 20
- Favorito
- 1
The language as well as some figurative language used is so cute and appropriate for the targeted age. The language invites audiences to think about what THEY want to do. I also like how on pages 11-12 it says, "At sunset I was a firefighter and I squirted water at the sun until it turned into the moon..." I really liked this quote. This is just one example of *many* that make the language in this story so great and imaginative for it's audience. The story provides hope and reinforces the big idea of exploring the world and chasing the things you love. Being given the question, "What do you want to do?" should NEVER limit you, it should challenge you! I think that is the main idea the author is trying to get across.… (más)