Chax Press is a publisher of experimental and avant-garde poetry run by bookmaker and poet Charles Alexander. The press publishes both trade paperback and handmade artist's books. Chax is the oldest publisher of poetry in Tucson, AZ, a city where the press was initially founded in 1984, continuing the work of Black Mesa Press that Alexander had begun in 1981 in Wisconsin. The first book published was French Sonnets, by Jackson Mac Low. Chax Press continues to publish about 10 titles a year. Chax Press is funded by grants from the Tucson-Pima Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and other organizations, as well as by its earned income from book sales and by donations from individuals.
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“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
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But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)