William L. Fox is the author of six nonfiction books on the cultural geography of the American Southwest, more than a dozen books of poetry, and is currently at work on a book about scientific and artistic images of the Antarctic. His poems have appeared in more than 60 magazines and journals, and he edited the West Coast Poetry Review for many years. He is the Western States Arts Federation literature consultant.

"Reading Sand is a beautifully spare, minimal, and serially progressive sequence of poems...Fox's poetry forces the reader to pause, to re-engage with the spare essentials of existence, and to rebuild a tentious yet miraculous vision of the world." -Arthur Sze "Fox has invented a form equal to his subject, a form both radically austere and musical, a form more compelling, emotionally expressive, and seemingly necessary than I have seen in contemporary American poems for some time." -Forrest Gander

William L. Fox is the author of six nonfiction books on the cultural geography of the American Southwest, more than a dozen books of poetry, and is currently at work on a book about scientific and artistic images of the Antarctic. His poems have appeared in more than 60 magazines and journals, and he edited the West Coast Poetry Review for many years. He is the Western States Arts Federation literature consultant.

"Reading Sand is a beautifully spare, minimal, and serially progressive sequence of poems...Fox's poetry forces the reader to pause, to re-engage with the spare essentials of existence, and to rebuild a tentious yet miraculous vision of the world." -Arthur Sze "Fox has invented a form equal to his subject, a form both radically austere and musical, a form more compelling, emotionally expressive, and seemingly necessary than I have seen in contemporary American poems for some time." -Forrest Gander

William L. Fox is the author of six nonfiction books on the cultural geography of the American Southwest, more than a dozen books of poetry, and is currently at work on a book about scientific and artistic images of the Antarctic. His poems have appeared in more than 60 magazines and journals, and he edited the West Coast Poetry Review for many years. He is the Western States Arts Federation literature consultant.

"Reading Sand is a beautifully spare, minimal, and serially progressive sequence of poems...Fox's poetry forces the reader to pause, to re-engage with the spare essentials of existence, and to rebuild a tentious yet miraculous vision of the world." -Arthur Sze "Fox has invented a form equal to his subject, a form both radically austere and musical, a form more compelling, emotionally expressive, and seemingly necessary than I have seen in contemporary American poems for some time." -Forrest Gander