Poetry. Art. In this beautiful new book from Past Tents, George Tysh collects his responses to works of art in the Cranbook Art Museum. The works themselves are reproduced alongside his poems. The Arts Editor of the Metro Times (Detroit), Tysh is the author of seven previous collections of poems, including OVALS (In Camera) and ECHOLALIA (United Artists). Illustrated with 34 black & white plates. Lights light / an area / clouds cloud.

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).