COAT OF ARMS

Reviews

"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

Author Biography

Chris Tysh was born and raised in Paris, and studied American literature at the Sorbonne. Her books include: Allen Ginsberg, a critical study,  was published in Paris by Editions Seghers in the series "Poètes d'Aujourd'hui";  Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues Press); Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVOX [books]); Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K(United Artists Books); Cleavage (Roof Books, 2004); Continuity Girl(United Artists Books, 2000); In the Name (Past Tents Press, 1994); and Coat of Arms. Her Motor City drama, car men, a play in d, was staged at the Detroit Institute of Arts under the direction of Carla Harryman in 1996. She is a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. She teaches writing and women's studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.