Poetry. These are poems of a rare and exquisite composure. A sonorousachingly precise cry from the heart an antidote to mock the grotesquebraggadocio. Chris Tys... » 

Poetry. These are poems of a rare and exquisite composure. A sonorousachingly precise cry from the heart an antidote to mock the grotesquebraggadocio. Chris Tysh has drawn her sword and it is a weapon of greatbeauty razor sharp and shimmering a thing that cuts to the quickPaulAuster. The very fact that we call heraldic symbols devices makes themvulnerable to another realmthe poeticwhere prerogatives can and as ChrisTysh believes should be rethought and ultimately dispersed. Tyshs writingdoesnt say we shouldnt be somewhere but it acts out a being there in adifferent gorgeous and unpunishing wayLyn Hejinian. «