Thylias Moss was born on February 27,1954, in Cleveland, Ohio and is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American, Native American, and European heritage.
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17 Facts About Thylias Moss
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Thylias Moss's poetry has been published in a number of collections and anthologies, and she has published essays, children's books, and plays.
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Thylias Moss is the pioneer of Limited Fork Theory, a literary theory concerned with the limitations and capacity of human understanding of art.
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Thylias Moss's father chose the name Thylias because he decided she needed a name that had not existed before.
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When Thylias Moss was five, the Feldmans sold their house and moved away.
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Thylias Moss's parents continued to live in the house with the new homeowners and their 13-year-old daughter, Lytta, who began to baby-sit Moss after school.
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Thylias Moss experienced constant harassment from Lytta and several traumatic events before the age of nine.
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Thylias Moss married at age 16 before attending Syracuse University from 1971 to 1973.
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Thylias Moss eventually left university due to racial tensions and entered the workforce for several years.
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Thylias Moss enrolled in Oberlin College in 1979 and graduated with a BA in 1981.
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Thylias Moss later received a Master of Arts in English, with an emphasis on writing, from the University of New Hampshire.
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Thylias Moss's POAMs are combinations of film and poetry, emphasizing how text placement and movement, among other sensory elements, can enhance the meaning of a poem.
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Thylias Moss contributed to experimental literary theory by introducing the metaphor of a fork to conceptualize how people internalize art and literature.
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The fork as a metaphor for understanding represents bifurcation, and Thylias Moss argues that the branching out of the mind to understand art mimics the branching tines of a fork.
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Thylias Moss uses the word "limited" to express that, though an observer gains understanding of art through these bifurcated systems of comprehension, the same systems limit their understanding.
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Development of Thylias Moss's POAMs coincided with her theoretical development of Limited Fork.
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Thylias Moss has expressed interest in incorporating olfactory elements in future projects.
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