Maths Format: TradePaperback

In  Maths  by Joel Chace, poignant, exacting anecdotes, dreams, and implacable observations are the core of every page. Around these are a vivid scatter of math detritus: cutup citations about concepts, some word problems, references to physics and epistemology, scientific and geometric formulae in algebraic languages that might even be fabrications using those abbreviations and glyphs. These theorems and speculative propositions are thrown as if by chance on each page. This is a provocative and provoking book addressing and dissolving rigor, and framing the living, the dead, apparent exactness, and actual existence. — Rachel Blau DuPlessis Author of  Selected Poems 198001/01/2020

Joel Chace  has published work in print and electronic magazines such as  Tip of the Knife,  E· ratio, Otoliths, Word For/Word, Golden Handcuffs Review, New American Writing,  and  The Brooklyn Rail.  His fulllength collections include  matter no matter,from Paper Kite Press,  Humors,  from Paloma Press,  Threnodies,  from Moria Books,  fata morgana,  from Unlikely Books, and  Maths,  from Chax Press.    Underrated Provinces  is due out from Mad Hat Press in 01/01/2024.  Chace was a working jazz pianist for more than 40 years.  He is an NEH Fellow.