Lax, Robert

A catch of anti-letters by Thomas Merton ( Book )
7 editions published between 1978 and 1994 in English and held by 435 libraries worldwide

When prophecy still had a voice : the letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax by Thomas Merton ( Book )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 426 libraries worldwide
"Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a twenty-year-old sophomore when he was introduced to fellow student Robert Lax (1915-2000) in the Columbia University cafeteria in 1935. They were brought together by an admiration for each other's writing as it appeared in the college humor magazine. Upon graduation in 1938, Merton converted to Roman Catholicism and Lax began graduate study in English and took a job at the New Yorker. Three years later, Merton entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, and he and Lax saw each other only four more times. Yet their friendship was sustained for the next thirty-three years through an amazing correspondence." "These letters of two poets and solitaries betray a giddy delight in wordplay, unconstrained by rules of grammar or conventions of spelling. Puns, portmanteaus, and inside jokes abound. The thiry-year exchange began when Merton dashed off a note on June 17, 1938, after spending a week with Lax's family. The final epistle in their correspondence was written by Lax on December 8, 1968. Merton died in Bangkok five days later and never received it." "Arthur Biddle spent nearly ten years collecting every letter known to exist between Merton and Lax, a total of 346, two-thirds of which have never been published. Biddle provides chronologies of their lives and, through unobtrusive notes, places events and people in context within the letters. This volume also includes the text of a rare interview with Lax."--BOOK JACKET.

Love had a compass : journals and poetry by Robert Lax ( Book )
4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 320 libraries worldwide
Every generation of poets seems to harbor its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance come to light after his talent has already been achieved and exercised. The same drama of obscurity and nuance that attended the discovery of Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens is suggested by the career of Robert Lax. An expatriate American whose work to date - more than forty books - has been published mostly in Europe, this eighty-year-old poet built a following in this country among figures as widespread as Mark Van Doren, E. E. Cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra. The works in Love Had a Compass represent every stage of Lax's development as a poet, from his early years in the 1910s as a staff writer for the New Yorker to his present life on the Greek island of Patmos. An inveterate wanderer, Lax's own sense of himself as both exile and pilgrim is carefully evoked in his prose journals and informs the pages of the Marseille Diaries, published here for the first time. Together with the poems, they provide the best portrait available to date of one of the most striking and original poets of our age.

Circus days & nights by Robert Lax ( Book )
5 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 220 libraries worldwide

A thing that is by Robert Lax ( Book )
5 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 199 libraries worldwide
Robert Lax is one of the most original and important American poets of this century. His work is firmly rooted in the American avant garde tradition, a generation of artists that includes John Cage, William Burroughs and the Abstract Expressionist painters. This is his first volume of all new poems to be published in America since the 60s. Much as Bowles chose Tangier, Lax chose the Greek islands. After working in the 40s and 50s as an editor for the New Yorker, a film.

33 poems by Robert Lax ( Book )
5 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 162 libraries worldwide

Merton a film biography of Thomas Merton ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 157 libraries worldwide
Presents a study of the life of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, author, philosopher, and activist, drawing upon archival film, still photographs, interviews, and readings from Merton's writings.

The circus of the sun by Robert Lax ( Book )
6 editions published between 1959 and 1960 in English and held by 71 libraries worldwide

Robert Lax by Robert Lax ( Book )
7 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in Multiple languages and Undetermined and held by 57 libraries worldwide
An appreciation of the life and work of American poet Robert Lax, a native of Olean, New York, in writings and in photographs.

The ABCs of Robert Lax ( Book )
6 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide