Poems (1962-1997) - by Robert Lax (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence.--Jack Kerouac</p><p>Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most.--John Ashbery</p><p><i>Poems (1962-1997)</i> gathers thirty-five years of Robert Lax's work, rarely published and largely composed in solitude on the island of Patmos. Compiled and edited by the poet's former assistant John Beer, this selection reflects--through meditative sequences in striking vertical columns--Lax's rigorous attention to the world around him and his relentless aspiration to new ways of writing.</p><p><i>love &<br>death</i></p><p><i>are blood<br>& bone</i></p><p><i>love &<br>death</i></p><p><i>are bread<br>& stone</i></p><p><i>love &<br>death<br>are rose<br>& thorn</i></p><p><i>(love &<br>death</i></p><p><i>are sheep<br>& shorn)</i></p><p><b>Robert Lax</b> (1915-2000) published dozens of volumes of poetry and prose with small presses and worked as an editor for the <i>New Yorker</i>, <i>Jubilee</i>, and <i>PAX</i>. From 1962 to the end of his life, he made his home in the Greek islands.</p><p><b>John Beer</b> is the author of <i>The Waste Land and Other Poems</i> (Canarium, 2010), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. For two years in the late 1990s, he served as literary assistant to Robert Lax. He currently lives and teaches in Oregon.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Lax</b> (1915-2000) published dozens of volumes of poetry and prose journals with small presses in Europe and the United States, as well as <i>A Catch of Anti-Letters</i>, correspondence with his lifelong friend Thomas Merton. Educated at Columbia University, he worked as an editor for <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Jubilee</i>, and <i>PAX</i>. From 1962 to the end of his life, he made his home in the Greek islands, first Kalymnos and ultimately Patmos. <p/><b>John Beer</b> is the author of <i>The Waste Land and Other Poems</i> (Canarium, 2010), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lived on the Greek island of Patmos for two years in the late 1990s, where he served as literary assistant to Robert Lax. He currently teaches creative writing at Portland State University; previously, he reviewed theater for <i>Time Out Chicago.</i>
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