Chartings
Poem by Ray DiPalma and Lyn Hejinian
Book by Charles Alexander with markings by Cynthia Miller
$320

A collaboration in twenty sections, this poem reveals both poets at their most lyric and playful, but ultimately the matters are serious, as we see in these intricate "chartings" of language.

Perhaps the most challenging visual book by Chax Press to date, this oversize volume measures 13.5 inches x 11.25 inches when closed. Its binding is a two-signature sewing cased into boards covered with oriental Moriki papers of a deep red color. Endsheets are reversible black and white Unryu paper. Individual pages are printed with large, yellow, 4-inch block letters in random patterns.

The poems have been printed on handmade mulberry papers that are torn by hand and collaged into the sheets of the book. Hundreds of hours, and several years in the making, this is a book that extends Chax Press's explorations of possible book forms in harmony with innovative literary texts. All printing is letterpress on a Vandercook Press. All binding is by hand in the Chax press studios.

Individuals
by Lyn Hejinian and Kit Robinson
1988, poetry