Joel Chace
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Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as, The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket. Most recent collections include Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake's Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, Kansoz, from Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, Web Too, from Tonerworks, War, and After, from BlazeVOX [books], and Scorpions, from Unlikely Books.
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fire-dream again of the old home everyone still there alive voices o all their voices living gathered on the back lawn though inside the boy and his brother they’ve torn open walls to get at that burning wooden network as usual they’re the only ones who’ve discovered the danger those clunky cross-beams old railroad ties riven by pockets of deep flaming furnace-mouths feeding dragon-maws forever as the two boys know as they use whatever’s at hand plastic buckets coffee mugs measuring cups on and on until having recovered walls they welcome back those voices from outside                                              *** I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt                                              *** nature hides o it loves to but it does leave signs                                              *** this one doesn’t read or he reads with a barbaric soul                                              *** as if Newman’s Voice of Fire had tipped sideways and kept replicating itself onward once more the walls are opened and the brothers urgent with hopelessness gaze into that fire-stream visible because they expected it visible as a string of deep-set glowing mouths or notes along wooden staves aria running through its passionate stations song from a raving mouth mirthless unadorned unsweetened reaching over thousands of years because a god lives within it                                              *** Rothko’s # 16 red brown and black                                              *** the simple expression of the complex thought the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal to reassert the picture plane flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth                                              *** turns out one can step into the same river twice though not into the same flowing passing water without which the river is not                                              *** out of fire language that births soul and voice voice breathing fire in the crowded theater                                              *** attracted by some irresistible magnet across space entering into mysterious recesses                                              *** logos is the fire that is the final sentence                                              *** so that fire running through those beams advancing along a line replicating itself so that on Horeb the bush placed on its side and replicating itself so that one of the brothers gazing at flames behind walls lays down his head and exhales a breath advancing along a line which replicates itself
Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as, The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket. Most recent collections include Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake's Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, Kansoz, from Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, Web Too, from Tonerworks, War, and After, from BlazeVOX [books], and Scorpions, from Unlikely Books.
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