"Joel Chace’s reading at Robins Books May 19 makes me want to look at
his
linebreaks again," wrote Ron Silliman in a footnote to a recent post to
his
blog. This new chapbook provides the perfect opportunity.
A
SCRIPT
Joel Chace
24 pages
Cover photo by Michael Aanji
Crowley
Otoliths 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9806025-3-1
$8.25 + p&h
Direct
URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/a-script/7226173
Joel
Chace's A Script cons our part: part Asbergian stutter, part
zen
enlightenment, words and white spaces carefully/randomly placed pace
us
through a spectrum of verbal light, asking if there is a difference
between
self and other, background and text. These experiments of space and
the
phrase and word range over nature, food, and communication, invoking
Inca
and Silliman both, "speaking that other language again ... yield itself
each
sentence." —Larissa Shmailo
I like what Joel Chace does with the
topology of the line, the way he shows
how far it can be stretched while
still maintaining its integrity. And I
like how in doing so he takes the
plainest words—especially everyday nouns
like work, linen, world, office,
desk, ceiling—and makes them oddly visible
in the poem's raking
light:
"words / tiny far
but clear"
indeed. —Barry Schwabsky
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