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Cover of the book Coat Of Arms by Chris Tysh. The cover is a light purple while the text and illustration are in a darker purple. The illustration is in the center of the page and is of a organic swirl shape that is mostly white with purple dots on the inside of it. Behind the swirl is a square made of dark purple and white stripes.

Coat of Arms

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Author: Chris Tysh

Publisher: Station Hill Press (1992)

"These are poems of a rare and exquisite composure. A sonorous, achingly precise cry from the heart, an antidote to 'mock the grotesque braggadocio.' Chris Tysh has drawn her sword, and it is a weapon of great beauty: razor sharp and shimmering, a thing that cuts to the quick."

–Paul Auster

"The very fact that we call heraldic symbols 'devices' makes them vulnerable to another realm—the poetic—where prerogatives can (and, as Chris Tysh believes, should) be rethought and ultimately dispersed. Tysh's writing doesn't say we shouldn't be somewhere, but it acts out a being there in a different (gorgeous and unpunishing) way."

–Lyn Hejinian