Lax, Robert

A catch of anti-letters by Thomas Merton( Book )

7 editions published between 1978 and 1994 in English and held by 434 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Between 1962 and 1967, two solitary friends, both contemplatives, engaged in a playful exchange of letters- Thomas Merton from Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Kentucky. Bob Lax from self-imposed exile in the Greek islands. The friendship that began between Columbia University undergraduates and flourished for the 27 years of Merton's monkhood has generated more serious correspondence, but this intimate collection was edited by the prolific monk before his accidental death in 1968, in Thailand. The letters are filled with inside jokes, literary amusements, and reminiscences about Columbia. Merton adds Zen drawings: Lax, experimental poems.".--back cover

When prophecy still had a voice : the letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax by Thomas Merton( Book )

6 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 434 WorldCat member 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."--Jacket

Merton a film biography of Thomas Merton( Visual )

2 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member 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

Circus days & nights by Robert Lax( Book )

5 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Brings together three critically acclaimed long poems about the circus in a collection by one of America's leading minimalist poets

A thing that is by Robert Lax( Book )

6 editions published in 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Singleness of purpose

33 poems by Robert Lax( Book )

4 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 157 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax( Book )

2 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The circus of the sun by Robert Lax( Book )

5 editions published between 1959 and 1960 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New poems by Robert Lax( Book )

8 editions published between 1962 and 1986 in 3 languages and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hermit's guide to home economics by Robert Lax( Book )

2 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three medium-length poems by America's forgotten hermit poet and master of concrete minimalism. Robert Lax's Hermit's Guide to Home Economics combines three long poems the poet composed on the Island of Patmos, where he lived a life separated from the rest of the world in the natural setting of that desert isle. Lax writes humorously about his "hermit" life, as if he were King Solomon doing a stand-up routine. But he also writes like a mystic whose surroundings speak to him, and uses the whole field of the page to explore the full potential of the word as image, and the poet as citizen. --Provided by publisher