“What an abracadabra of abecedarian magic is 26 TEARS! Evoking the Aramaic avra kehdabra, ‘I will create as I speak,’ this collaborative incantation weaves a magical spell of language. Two poets riff in alphabetical measure with illuminating literar...

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Poetry. Tysh's two-part take on presence and absence is rooted in jazz and painting, French and Mandarin, memory and longing, in a recto-verso approach to structure. Its first bareboned section, "A Thousand Words," is 100 pages, ten words per page, ...

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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 worl...

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Poetry. "Somewhere between taking stock and stocking up these words impinge. Caught up once more in the eternal return of What can be said? What not? The scalar groove of all that? Restless, this troubling beauty of the still unfinished"--Clark Cool...

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Poetry. Cover and interior art by Janet Hamrick."His engagement with the variable foot of William Carlos Williams gives a new spring and all to George Tysh's remarkable collection THE SLIP. For much of the book, especially the haunting title poem, a...

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