Is There Brilliance in Resilience? is about that down-to-earth homegirl whose resilience takes you for a walk during a pep talk in a relative way. It gives words to the unexpressed. It is an honest book of poetic stories about family tragedies and life experiences that will rock you, shock you, and get in your face. It will allow you to feel and to share the depression, the extreme grief, and even the relief from the constancy of it. It forces you to look deeper into the lost and the broken to define it and to then empty it out and to refuse it. Yet the survival through it all teaches us to stand up to anything that breaks us down. It is a brushing of ourselves off. It is a taking of our lives back that is so therapeutic and necessary to our well-being.
About the Author: Tier V. King is one of the many Bakers, which is a large proud family of beautiful, intelligent, and strong people. Of the immediate family though, Tier is the fourth child out of nine children. They are all belonging to two excellent parents who were perfect examples of what a loving marriage and family should look like or be like. Tier started working really young, about eleven years old. Her father ran a successful family business. So working hard to enjoy a good life was taught young throughout the family. In fact, one of the descriptions that Tier enjoys is being a workaholic because she enjoys working hard and staying employed. So straight out of school, she was determined to maintain a good employment history, and she did. However, the one constant observation of Tier was her ability to write. She spoke well, explaining different episodes of her life, and anyone she shared this with always stated, "Your life is so incredible. You must write a book about it. It is a story that must be told!" Yes, Tier knew that she endured much and was saved many times by God himself. God stepped in each time using his saving power in ways that would unmistakably reveal his love and attention to all human matters. She had a responsibility to share these miracles. Is There Brilliance in Resilience? is Tier's first book. Its poetry is bits and pieces of her life that expresses some of the tragedies that caused her dejection and potential ruin. She has said, "I wrote the poetry because during the shocking parts of my struggling life, I heard poetry. So I'd scurry to write it down so that when I finally write my life story, the people who read both books will notice and get what I meant in certain poems. Yet the poetry is a reminder for me of some of the happenings that I wish not to forget to include when writing my biography."