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    George 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, set in columns that give a nod to classical stanza form. Part Two, "and Others," a coda of sparse lyrics, fills out the tone of what is barely implied in Part One. In a mixture of vernacular and stark poetics, he produces a book-length series that exp

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    George 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, set in columns that give a nod to classical stanza form. Part Two, "and Others," a coda of sparse lyrics, fills out the tone of what is barely implied in Part One. In a mixture of vernacular and stark poetics, he produces a book-length series that exp

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    A THOUSAND WORDS

    AND OTHERS

    GEORGE TYSH

    BLAZEVOX[BOOKS]
    Buffalo, New York
    A Thousand Words and Others
    by George Tysh
    Copyright © 2020
    Published by BlazeVOX [books]

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without


    the publisher’s written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.

    Printed in the United States of America

    Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Gatza


    Cover art by Addie Langford
    detail of "Vigo" (from the drawing series Slow Knots)
    colored pencil, graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 2007
    Private Collection, Minneapolis, MN
    Photo Credit: Tim Thayer

    First Edition
    ISBN: 978-1-60964-361-4

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    A Thousand Words

    "Who has sent an embroidered letter via clouds?"


    —Li Quingzhao,
    (Song Dynasty)
    some

    tiny

    songs

    heads

    in

    hands

    left

    over

    from

    ago

    11
    the

    very

    things

    that

    take

    their

    movement

    from

    its

    meaning

    12
    im

    sommerwind

    dreamed

    along

    in

    the

    dormant

    forest

    of

    hindsight

    13
    to

    whom

    do

    you

    go

    to

    yes

    or

    no

    avail

    14
    work

    like

    hell

    tote

    that

    bale

    to

    tell

    the

    tale

    15
    thick

    layers

    other

    lakes

    below

    level

    think

    about

    being

    there

    16
    nose

    ears

    eyes

    fall

    away

    from

    each

    face

    into

    lines

    17
    eventually

    focus

    on

    sanity

    brings

    congeniality

    to

    the

    chronology

    18
    the

    truck

    rumbled

    on

    (over

    our

    voices)

    full

    of

    wood

    19
    lazy

    sunbeams

    turn

    the

    faucet

    pant

    leg

    shines

    up

    loft

    20
    light

    itself

    teased

    into

    conspiracy

    to

    make

    you

    lovelier

    21
    but

    their

    words

    still

    glittered

    in

    the

    shining

    hot

    stew

    22
    it

    is

    favorite

    it

    has

    successfully

    distracted

    its

    creator

    23
    cramps

    itself

    in

    psychotic

    tangle

    of

    paths

    and

    stairways

    24
    rain

    on

    the

    scene

    hissing

    slowly

    could

    breathe

    in

    hallways

    25
    "nothingness"

    and

    "suchness"

    from

    which

    and

    into

    which

    we

    awake

    26
    an

    hour

    among

    others

    among

    so

    many

    others

    an

    hour

    27
    such

    antennas

    know

    the

    voice

    of

    undoing

    long

    before

    we

    28
    but

    the

    risks

    of

    this

    procedure

    are

    not

    fully

    understood

    29
    for

    all

    we

    know

    that

    door

    locks

    from

    the

    inside

    30

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