forkergirl
Ten books by Thylias Moss have been published:
TOKYO BUTTER
SLAVE MOTH
(Project Genealogy is a 2005 video poam
[with music by Ansted Moss] about why Thylias Moss
wrote Slave Moth)
LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER
(finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award)
SMALL CONGREGATIONS
RAINBOW REMNANTS IN ROCK BOTTOM GHETTO SKY
(winner of the National Poetry Series open competition)
I WANT TO BE
AT REDBONES
PYRAMID OF BONE
HOSIERY SEAMS ON A BOWLEGGED WOMAN
(finalist for the Great Lakes First Book Prize)
TALE OF A SKY-BLUE DRESS (memoir)
Thylias Moss
is Professor of English
and Art & Design
at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor where she teaches
LIMITED FORK THEORY.
Resources
Any class can become a Limited Fork Theory learning and growing opportunity. All her classes seized these Limited Fork opportunities as of October 2004.
Thylias became Forkergirl shortly thereafter, a tine of identity
that more fully explores implications and consequences (forms of interaction) of a theory that studies interacting systems (especially any/all visual, sonic, olfactory, tactile, imaginary, cognitive, etc. systems/subsystems) on any/all scales, in any/all locations, for any/all durations of time.
a book of Book & essay titles
by Thylias Moss
The cover is from a 50X USB microscope scan of a flower from Deirdre's funeral, a loss that shaped this limited fork inquiry into the nature of loss & maintenance of connection
cover image is of a hand-made dress that fits an 18-inch American Girl doll. Made as part of a poam system to understand what it would be like to sew words, poems, idea, a sense of identity into a coccon worn by Varl, the slave girl protagonist of this novel in verse
Varl Doll wearing coccon garment
at the moment of metamorphosis:
the point where
the garment became too large to conceal under Varl's dress
PROJECT GENEALOGY
is a video poam about
why Thylias Moss wrote Slave Moth
Finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Award
a winner of the
National Poetry Series open competition
Pyramid of Bone
was a Finalist for
Becoming forkergirl:
forked hair metamorphosis
(photo by Ansted)
The Raggedness
of Interacting Boundaries
an interview
with Thylias Moss
by Dan Shapiro
Shadows, Boxes, Forks, and POAMs
Thylias Moss interviewed by Richard Siken
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY
Essays by Thylias Moss
[The Extraordinary Hoof
(as intended;
first published
in BostonReview)]
an essay about the works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
as a limited fork interacting system; each paragraph is sculpted in to a shape --the information remains, but becomes monuments. An intended evolution is to reconfigure the paragraph sculptures into 3D forms for rapid prototyping, eventually
to project Cha's images and/or film fragments,and new images and moving work by myself and/or othersonto these solid idea forms.
a LIMITED FORK is a highly adaptable tool useful in approaching, so far, anything. Use of this tool of interaction (and collaboration) results in POAMS: product[s] of act[s] of making
THYLIAS MOSS has received numerous awards and honors, including: a Macarthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship,
A Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA Grant, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, a Dewars Profiles Performance Artist Award in poetry,
and multiple grants from the Kenan Charitable Trust.
Limited Fork Podcasts:
LIMITED FORK
LIMITED FORK MUSIC
LIMITED FORK VIDEO ANTHOLOGY
Another Limited Fork Theory Website:
The Mid-Hudson Taffy Company
Limited Fork is the study of interacting systems
