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Derrida's In/Voice
Poetry. "There is immense talent here--Chris Tysh just gets better and better. With multiple registers and citational energy, the archive is exploded and transformed: we find references to poetry, film, revolution, politics, and philosophy, all effortlessly braided and made dynamic as they speak to one another. With perfectly pitched music, and impeccable form, DERRIDA'S IN/VOICE discloses and complicates the knotted conversation between hard and soft power. It's an awesome book."--Peter Gizzi "Chris Tysh's ongoing project of 'transcreations' reminds us that the process of translating one language into another, like the transformation of prose into poetry, might be considered a kind of scand...
26 Tears
"What an abracadabra of abecedarian magic is 26 TEARS! Evoking the Aramaic avra kehdabra, 'I will create as I speak,' this collaborative incantation weaves a magical spell of language. Two poets riff in alphabetical measure with illuminating literary texts, an epidemic, and a quotidian of political angst. Here a double abecedary comes full circle as the responding poet counters the initial's opening of 'A to Z' with a 'Z to A' turnabout. Powerfully ouroboric as alphabet's tail joins origin with snippets from each corresponding letter!"--Maureen Owen "The shocks of the last half decade have left us breathless, with poetry gasping to catch up. Language itself registers the feints and shifts in unexplainable ways. In 26 TEARS we have a quiet poetic conversation between two poets--who happen to be married to one another as they are to the art--in slant-stanzaed, short-lined poems that touch mind and heart in all registers. Nothing solved, described, or theorized, just the ever-shifting colors of words twisting back and forth on themselves in a world in pain."--Norman Fischer Poetry. Collaboration.
Hotel Des Archives
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, d tournement, 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.
Coat of Arms
Coat of Arms is a truly unusual collection of prose poems inspired by heraldry. Ms. Tysh, an acclaimed poet and author of several collections, uses traditional heraldic imagery to turn heraldry on its ear; in doing so, she creates a new legend based not on the male dominance, warlike temperament and hierarchical order of the Middle Ages, but on the twin powers of the feminine and desire. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic
"In 'Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic', Chris Tysh newly translates Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, compressing Jean Genet's disturbing 1943 novel into cuttingly charged verse"--Publisher's information.
Continuity Girl
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.
Night Scales
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.
Molloy
Poetry. MOLLOY: THE FLIP SIDE transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous antihero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: "Gotta check out soon / Be done with dying," Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece. "In MOLLOY: THE FLIP SIDE, Chris Tysh transcreates--rather than translates--the Beckett classic into a Matthew O'Connor-cum-Tiresias rant. 'Has a leak in his tank / Button missing a hole / In his wig, you feel me?" The indeterminate narrat...
Cleavage
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.
Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School
Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler. Reappraising the much-debated New York School label, Mae Losasso shows how these writers constructed poetic spaces, structures, surfaces, and apertures, and sought to figure themselves and their readers in relation to these architextual sites. In doing so, Losasso reveals how the built environment shapes the poetic imagination and how, in turn, poetry alters the way we read and inhabit architectural space. Animated by archival research and architectural photographs, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School marks a decisive interdisciplinary turn in New York School studies, and offers new frameworks for thinking about postmodern American poetry in the twenty-first century.
