Coat of Arms [Paperback]

Chris Tysh (Author), Catherine Tirr (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1998

"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

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Chris Tysh has a B.A. and a Masters Degree from the Sorbonne, Paris. Her publications include: Continuity Girl (2000); In the Name (1994); Coat of Arms (1992); Secrets of Elegance (1981); Car Men, A Play in D, which premiered at The Detroit Institute of the Arts on November 15, 1996; Allen Ginsberg (a critical study); Julie or The Rose (translation from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire, in collaboration with husband George Tysh). She is the editor of Everyday Life; writes the Blue Archive literary column for trait; and is the poetry editor of mark(s), an on-line literary journal. Her poems and articles have appeared in Poetry, Black Bread, Blue Pig,The World, and many others. Chris Tysh s on-line publications include: Dogma dogs (in The Pedestal Magazine, February 2001); 13 scenes from Mother I, a film script, (in how2, September, 2000); and Flagrant delight: the red-handed writings of Kathy Acker (in Underwire, September, 2000). She has recently read poetry in New York (The Poetry Project, March 7, 2001), Los Angeles (The Poetic Research Bloc, February 10, 2001), San Diego (February 8, 2001), and Providence (Brown University, November 2, 2000). Chris Tysh teaches poetry and fiction at Wayne State University, Detroit. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Barrytown Limited (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886449597
• ISBN-13: 978-1886449596
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,354,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Tysh, born and educated in Paris, was naturalized as a citizen of the United States on July 4, 1998 at Chene Park in Detroit, along with 1,200 postulants, after an interview weeks earlier where she successfully demonstrated her fluency of the English language. She teaches creative writing and women's studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her latest book of poems is Cleavage (Roof Books, 2004. She is a recipient of a 2003 NEA Fellowship in poetry. She has written a full-length screenplay, based on a novel of Georges Bataille and completed, Night Scales, a play dealing with the events of WWII.
Her poetry collections include: Coat of Arms (Station Hill); In the Name (Past Tents Press); Continuity Girl (United Artists). Her latest projects are: Molloy, the Flip Side and Our Lady, Echoic.
www.http//:christyshpoet.com

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19 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Misled, March 27, 1999

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This review is from: Coat of Arms (Paperback)

This book is entitled " Coat of Arms" ., meaning to any rational person, the book would be information and illistrations of med-evil " Coat of Arms" not-- The book does not contain any information onf Coat of Arms. i am not sure what it includes. It does not make any sense.

6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book, April 12, 2000

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This review is from: Coat of Arms (Paperback)

To the previous review. Did you even read this book? if you did you were searching for the wrong answers! Lose all the close mindedness and re-read this book.!