From: Chicago Review | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Beer, John | COPYRIGHT 2001 University of Chicago. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Charles Wright. Night Music. Exeter, UK: Stride, 2001.

Franz Wright Hell. Exeter, UK; Stride, 2001.

Robert Lax: Speaking Into Silence. Exeter, UK: Stride, 2001.

Like its indie-rock counterpart, the 8-inch vinyl disk, the chapbook is a form of publication intimately attuned to the state of its art. An endeavor marginal to the economics of book publishing, the chapbook is at once urgent and ephemeral: it cannot afford to wait for its contents to be pr...