Poetry. "The question, 'What do men want?' is answered in ECHOLALIA with an erotic diction which bites back. The lines break and reread themselves. They recombine. Response is solicited, imagined, narrated, pronounced, initialed. A hot, peopled world is presented with formal precision. Nouns are proffered in all their tight physicality. Verbs are paradise"--Laura Moriarty.

Author City: BIRMINGHAM, MI USA

George Tysh was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated in Detroit. In Paris in the 60s, he edited Blue Pig with David Ball, and collaborated with conceptual artists Christian Boltanski and Sarkis. From 1980 to 1991, he directed Lines: New Writing at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and (with poet Chris Tysh) edited In Camera, a project devoted to works of the sexual imaginary. Currently, he teaches at Roeper School in Birmingham, Michigan. THE IMPERFECT completes a sequence that includes Ovals (In Camera) and ECHOLALIA (United Artist Books).