The Chax Press Catalog

Chax Press, P.O. Box 19178, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55419-0178.

The Said Lands, Islands, and Premises. By Mary Margaret Sloan
ISBN 0-925904-13-9      96 pages        $11
available November 1995

from The Said Lands, Islands, and Premises

        up early waiting for

        the trees to explode
        what had been dreamed

        ahead of time was found
        coming back as procession

        where cloud moves or is
        the rock echoing with false water

        small false rock making
        crazed lines careful

        maps traverse the sun
        arrows and rays inside

        facing south the rock faces us
        entering in reverse order

        each blank tree with north facing ghost
        an echo of the hoard of people foreseen

        pace and expanse of speech
        utter absence of traffic

"Sloans passion for words their lipstick traces and lingering
inflections (as grammar would have it) makes for a poetry of
extraordinary pleasure and difficulty. The mind and ear are redirected
from inherited sequence to intentional mutation. As consummate
artificer, Sloans skill and gift demand an equally rigorous
reading. Her first book assumes the presence of a mature collection
and takes American poetry into its next argument."
                                          Kathleen Fraser

The Bounty. By Myung Mi Kim
ISBN 0-925904-21-X      104 pages          $12
available January 1996

        from The Bounty

        Lilac wander

        Soak spine

        Unite all three

        Father look/mother   task

        Mother I

        Mast

        Horizon

        Burn

        Salt

        From blank to blank /  A threadless way


"The tesserae Myung Mi Kim so remarkably fashions here come gradually
to form an articulate and coherent pattern, but a pattern in constant
process of renewal and reorganization. The fragment becomes entire as
it re-searches memory, recovers texts, episodes, sounds and
landscapes. The Bounty interrogates the radical and violent
instability of our moment, asking where is the location of culture,
where the site of self, selves, among others.  Its gaps or silences
speak as determinedly, and urgently, as its singular music."
                                            Michael Palmer


Kathleen Fraser, When New Time Folds Up $11
Norman Fischer, Precisely the Point Being Made  $10
Nathaniel Tarn, Caja del Rio*   $8
Rosmarie Waldrop, Fan Poem for Deshika* $18
Lisa Cooper, The Ballad in Memory*      OP
Nathaniel Mackey, Outlantish*   $110
Ron Silliman, Demo to Ink       $11
Beverly Dahlen, A Reading 8  10      $12
Gil Ott, Wheel* $35
Karen Mac Cormack, Quirks & Quillets    $8
Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein, Fools Gold*   OP
Sheila Murphy, Teth     $9
bp Nichol, Art Facts: A Book of Contexts        $15
Charles Bernstein, Four Poems*  OP
Larry Evers & Felipe S. Molina, Coyote Songs    $8
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mizu*    $90
Charles Alexander, Hopeful Buildings    $9.95
Lyn Hejinian & Kit Robinson, Individuals        $90
Eli Goldblatt, Sessions $9
John Randolph Hall, Zootaxy*    $35
Paul Metcalf, Firebird* OP
Karl Young, Five Kwaidan in Sleeve Pages*       OP
Charles Alexander, Two Songs*   OP
Paul Metcalf, Golden Delicious* OP
Jackson Mac Low, French Sonnets*        $75

* notes deluxe, handmade book arts editions

Forthcoming in 1995


Forthcoming in 1996
Hank Lazer, Three of Ten
Karen Mac Cormack, The Tongue Moves Talk
Lisa Cooper, & Calling It Snow