Small Congregations (The American Poetry)
"Moss is a visionary storyteller, a political and religious poet. It's the world of 'marvelous thirsts' and 'glorious hungers,' to use her words. I don't know many poets who have better eyes and better ears. 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." --Charles Simic"Thylias Moss names the black truths behind white lies. These poems are angry, defiant, yet informed with a sense of the sacred in their images, in their language, in their mimesis of transcendent ritual in everyday life. Here is a writer who speaks bitterness and makes her own music of it."   --Marilyn Hacker