On A Day of Glass, by Steven Salmoni

Find A Day of Glass on this web site! A Day of Glass Throughout the past decade or so, I have been especially interested in exploring the connections between poetry and the (visual) art of painting. Much of my writing during this time has been devoted to this pursuit,...

Blake & Science / An Exchange

By Andrew Joron & Adam Cornford Andrew writes: “The marriage of science & poetry in your work has many sources, which you also mention in the statement, Blake being most prominent among them. Bringing Blake’s thought in line with contemporary science...

BLAKE, SCIENCE, ETERNITY, AND POETRY

Lalia on Chax being my first new full-length collection in almost a quarter-century, I’m given to reflect on my sources and preoccupations. First among these is the poetry and worldview of William Blake, who, to use his own expression, has been my Friend and Teacher...

chax AND black mountain (1)

Chax was not a dream in a mind when I met, after a few years of reading their work, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn, at a conference in Iowa City on Charles Olson. I was at the time in grad school at the Univ of Wisconsin, in Madison, and I was TA-ing for...

What Books These Are Ink Only Knows

We have so MANY books in progress at Chax! New books which will be out in the next couple of months from Kyle Schlesinger and Andrew Levy. Not long after that from Adam Cornford. Soon, as well, a Selected Poems from Norman Fischer, also Selected Poems of Rachel Blau...