Poetry. The painted caves at Lascaux, France, contain some of the earliest surviving marks made by human hands. Using these caves as his structure and a lexicon derived from the history of printing, derek beaulieu postulates that, despite the current age's reliance on the printed word, the art of mark-making is utterly cut off from its own ancestry. These are poems that suggest--indelibly, impressively--that how you write affects what you write. "The non-sentencing of the poems in WITH WAX releases us from the shackles of syntax into the surprise of juncture, double exposure and an attention to words and phrases melting and flowing into new shapes. The effect is mesmerizing when the excess language pools and hardens as `often syntax penetrates platen streaks difficult to discern.' These are poems you can burn at both ends"--Fred Wah.

derek beaulieu is the author (or co-author) or 3 books of poetry and co-editor of shift & switch: new Canadian poetry. He is managing editor of filling Station magazine . Since 1997 he has been an editor at filling Station, dANDelion and endnote magazines. The archive for his small press housepress (1997-2004), a publisher of radical fiction and poetry, is now housed at Simon Fraser University in the Contemporary Literature Collection. His work has appeared internationally in journals, magazines and galleries.