Poetry. "These are poems of a rare and exquisite composure. A sonorous, achingly precise cry from the heart, an antidote to 'mock the grotesque braggadocio.' Chris Tysh has drawn her sword, and it is a weapon of great beauty: razor sharp and shimmering, a thing that cuts to the quick"—Paul Auster. "The very fact that we call heraldic symbols 'devices' makes them vulnerable to another realm—the poetic—where prerogatives can (and, as Chris Tysh believes, should) be rethought and ultimately dispersed. Tysh's writing doesn't say we shouldn't be somewhere, but it acts out a being there in a different (gorgeous and unpunishing) way"—Lyn Hejinian.

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Literature & Fiction

Tysh, Chris

Poetry

Station Hill Press of Barrytown

Poetry. Bold, erudite, witty, feminist and elegantly elegiac, CONTINUITY GIRL is a sweet surrender that works on the senses with its consummate dissonance and fierce lingual passion. The language moves and jags are revelatory: 'She is tired/ of explaining the etymology/ I hear it now: ska yellow fufu/ sucking teeth in/ between bites.' Chris Tysh rules with this major collection -- Anne Waldman.

Continuity Girl

United Artists Books

Poetry. Drama. "In Tysh's tough, visceral, lacerating text, we bear witness to a surreal poetry for the stage, reminiscent of Büchner, Artaud, Genet, and Heiner Müller. Klara K leads us on an unspeakable journey through the ravages of WWII, while bearing a child who will never know these immensely moving shards of stories except through her mother's anguished memories. NIGHT SCALES is a compassionate, devastating tale of death and survival by those who '...ate [the] bruises and drank the hurt in a long swallow,' and those who still '...hoard the pain, like a gift that flowers on a dry stalk'"—Charles Borkhuis. Cover by Christian Boltanski.

Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K

Dramas & Plays

<p>Poetry. Drama. "A collection of three literary actions written to be performed. The great thing is they can be performers with aplomb on the stage of the mind: although I would recommend to any performers interested in the end of century subversions that they use these works as launchings"—Carla Harryman.</p>

In the Name

Past Tents Press

Hotel des Archives is a trilogy of books consisting of verse recastings from the French novels of Beckett, Genet and Duras. Synchronous with postmodernism's aesthetics of appropriation, détournement, sampling and other intertextual strategies, the project operates a double shift of genre and language, since she moves from the original French and from prose to lyric. These transcreations, as Tysh has been calling them, allow her to forsake the traditional mode of self-expression in favor of one that "translates" other cultural materials, creating an artistic network beyond boundaries and temporalities.

Hotel des Archives: A Trilogy

AmazonUs/INDPB

Coat of Arms

Poetry. "CLEAVAGE is erotic, intelligent, self-aware and acutely conscious with ahothouse femme expertise. Vernacular and current, literary and erudite, Tysh's references serve her immediate images in one deft sketch after another, showing us women in their most intimate relations to themselves, their lives, and circumstances. Tysh is possessed of a singular sensual intellect, now fully mature, and going at full throttle"--Johanna Drucker. Tysh, born and raised in Paris, a student of American literature at the Sorbonne, author of a critical study of Allen Ginsberg, was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1998. She teaches writing and women's studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.

Cleavage

History & Criticism

Roof Books

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