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POETRY
71 Pages, 5.5 x 8
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)
Publication Date: January 1992
ISBN 9780937804469
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Jan 1992)
In designing a circle of stones about a pool for a zen garden, one would take a single rock and move it ever so slightly out of alignment, knowing that the mind's eye would then have to respond, participating in the creation of circularity itself, a far more powerful, vivid effect. Gertrude Stein employed this same gestalt principle of the absent subject in her portraits and in Tender Buttons, enabling language and meaning to suddenly blossom like the unfolding of a rose.
Charles Alexander is a poet, an artist, and a book publisher. His collections of poetry include Arc of Light/Dark Matter, Hopeful Buildings, Pushing Water, Four Ninety Eight to Seven, Etudes: D& D, near or random acts, and Certain Slants. The Pushing Water collection “joins the likes of Louis Zukofsky’s A or Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day as a practiced endeavor towards meeting the daily business of living with writing: a testament to the abiding determination to have the daily practice of writing and reading serve as a guiding force through life.” Trained in bookmaking and letterpress, Alexander is the founder and director of Chax Press. He has taught at Naropa University and the University of Arizona. He lives in Tucson with the painter Cynthia Miller.