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Jewish women write about the poetry of living.
SHARON GITTLEMAN
Special to the Jewish News
States in 1973 and became an
American citizen in 1998.
"I write in English. All around me,
ince the time of King David,
English is all I hear. To write, you
poetry has been an art treas-
need to be surrounded by that linguis-
ured by Jewish men and
tic environment. It's like a linguistic
women. While many Jewish
mirror," she said. "Gertrude Stein
poets today choose to write about sec-
wrote in English in France."
ular subjects, Judaism's influence on
According to Tysh, pushing the lim-
poetry remains strong.
its of the genre of poetry is prized in
Wayne State University lecturer
this country, unlike in many parts of
Chris Tysh is at the forefront of
Europe, where falling into a predeter-
Michigan's Jewish poets. The author of mined form is what is valued most.
five books of poetry, Tysh has just
"I admire what's referred to as exper-
been awarded a
imental poetry," she said. "It's a way of
poetry fellowship by
eliminating conven-
the National
' tional academic
Endowment for the
form."
Arts.
Tysh's work has
She is one of only
appeared in the
38 people in the
Chicago Review,
United States select-
Poetics Journab
ed this year for the
Contemporary Review
fellowship, which
of Fiction and dozens
carries a $20,000
of other publications.
cash award. Several
Poetry is rooted in
nationally acclaimed
three important ele-
poets reviewed the
ments, she said.
work of more than
"One of the three
1,600 applicants
elements is melody. You
before the fellow-
have to create musicali-
ships were chosen.
ty with your language,"
National Endowment of the Arts
"I feel it's an
she said. "The other
fellowship winner Chris Tysh
incredible honor and
element is imagery. YOu
a huge surprise," said
have to throw an image
Tysh, who is in her mid-50s. "I was
on the screen of the poem.
quite speechless when I received the
"The final element is what Ezra
phone call from Washington."
Pound called 'the dance of the intel-
In her most recent book of poetry,
lect.' Poetry isn't about flowers and
Continuity Girl (United Artists; $10),
butterflies and silly little things."
Tysh wrote several elegies for people
Tysh finds a strong relationship
who experienced the Holocaust,
between Jewish culture and "the word."
including her mother, Clara
"It's a thorny discussion about
Kopilewicz, who died two years ago.
what's a Jewish poet.versus a poet who
"My mother was from a small town
happens to be Jewish. I think a Jewish
near Lvov," said the Ferndale-based'
poet would be immersed in the sacred
poet. "She had two modes: Either she
texts and ponder them and study
wouldn't talk about the Holocaust
them and the whole philosophical cul-
because it was too painful or, once in a tural history," she said.
while, she would totally unlock the
"A writer, like me, who happens to
gates and talk for hours and hours."
be Jewish and is devoted to experi-
Tysh's uncle was a published play-
mental poetry can't be called a 'Jewish
wright and poet in Europe.
poet.' I'm a writer who happens to be
"The whole family had a relation-
Jewish through birth."
ship with language," she said.
Her own success as an American
A Compulsion For Poetry
poet is even more remarkable, since
her first language was French. A native
Mitzi Alvin is another Jewish woman
of Paris, Tysh came to the United
who is well known to people who love
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