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Author: Charles Alexander

Charles Alexander is a maker. His primary area of making is poetry and essays, i.e. the art of words, but some people know him equally as a maker and publisher of books. His books include HOPEFUL BUILDINGS (Chax Press, 1990), ARC OF LIGHT / DARK MATTER (Roof Books, 1992), NEAR OR RANDOM ACTS (Singing Horse Press, 2004), CERTAIN SLANTS (Junction Press, 2007), Pushing Water (Cuneiform Press, 2011) and AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA: PUSHING WATER II (Singing Horse Press, 2018). Truro/Shift, the third volume of Pushing Water, will be out in 2024. His poetry and prose have also been issued in more than a dozen chapbooks or fine press editions. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Naropa University, the Univ. of Arizona, Pima Community College, and the Univ. of Houston-Victoria. He is a former director of the Tucson Poetry Festival, helped to found and still serves on the board of POG (Poetry in Action), and was instrumental in the development of the Tucson Warehouse Arts District in the 1990s and early 2000s. He has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris, France, and in the CAAP (Chinese American Association for Poetry and Poetics) conferences in China. His Selected Poems, translated by Chen Du, will be published in China. In 2021 he earned the CLMP award for lifetime achievement in literary publishing. He currently writes a column for American Book Review about poets/printers.

He is married to the artist Cynthia E. Miller.

Arc of Light/Dark Matter
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Arc of Light/Dark Matter

Roof Books

Poetry. "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 ...

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AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II
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AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II

Singing Horse Press

Poetry. With AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA: PUSHING WATER II, Charles Alexander extends and amplifies the long poem that took shape in his 2011 volume, Pushing Water. As Alice Notley remarks, "Reading AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA is a dynamic experience, being p...

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Certain Slants
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Certain Slants

Junction Press

Poetry. Charles Alexander, in his new collection of poetry CERTAIN SLANTS, "...gives us certain slants, various slants, oblique angles into this world, poems written with considerable grace, integrity, and a tentativeness that becomes an ethical gol...

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Hopeful Buildings
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Hopeful Buildings

Chax Press

Poetry. "This book collects six works, different from each other in many respects, but all moving with a strong investigative force. Thinking is the experience of everyday living, and Charles Alexander's work is a poetry of thinking. But it is exper...

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Near or Random Acts
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Near or Random Acts

Singing Horse Press

Poetry. "In these two interwoven meditations, Charles Alexander continuously redefines the position of near and random acts, be they political, cultural, or linguistic. Probing and insistent, always visually descriptive, these cycles dwell on diffic...

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Time Being
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Time Being

Chax Press

New Collection from award winning poet and publisher, author of Pushing Water. “Charles Alexander’s brilliant new work, TIME BEING, creates, reimagines, and reassembles the world (this world and more than this world) into astonishingly graceful son...

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