Robert Lax

Author of A catch of anti-letters

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About the Author

Robert Lax was born in Olean, New York, in 1915. He studied at Columbia University in the 1930s, where John Berrynian, Ad Reinhardt, and Thomas Merton were among his contemporaries, and later worked for the New Yorker and Time before helping to found jubilee magazine in 1953. After traveling for show more extended periods in Italy and France in the 1950s, he settled in Greece in 1962, first on the island of Kalymnos, then later on the island of Patmos. He died in 2000. show less

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Grove Press Poetry Series

Pax {Robert Lax, ed.}

Works by Robert Lax

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A catch of anti-letters (1978) 42 copies, 1 review

Poems (1962-1997) (2013) 38 copies, 1 review

Love Had a Compass: Journals and Poetry (Grove Press Poetry Series) (1996) 33 copies

Circus Days and Nights (2001) 29 copies

A Thing That is: New Poems (1997) 26 copies

33 Poems (New Directions) (1988) 20 copies

A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics (Vol. 17) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) (2015) 14 copies

IN THE BEGINNING WAS LOVE: Contemplative Words of Robert Lax (2015) 7 copies

The Circus of the Sun (1959) 4 copies

Robert Lax: Speaking into Silence (2001) 2 copies

En ting som er (2015) 2 copies

Fables 2 copies

The circus of the sun 2 copies

Peacemaker's Handbook (2001) 2 copies

moments / höhepunkte (2000) 2 copies

New Poems 1962-85 (1986) 2 copies

Two Fables 1 copy

Poesie der Entschleunigung (2008) 1 copy

New Poems (1962) 1 copy

The ABCs of Robert Lax (1999) 1 copy

Pacificador 1 copy

Circus/Zirkus/Cirque/Circo: Circus of the Sun (1981) 1 copy

Hang Together: The Hanging Loose Press 20th Anniversary Anthology (1987) 1 copy

Robert Lax, catalogue in conjunction with exhibition, "Three Islands: Richard Stankiewicz, June Leaf, Robert Lax", Museum Tinguely, Basel 1 copy

Tiger. (1982) 1 copy

Zowi, Zowi, Bam, Alleluia (2018) 1 copy

A-ble Char-lie Bak-er Dance 1 copy

Thirteen Poems 1 copy

Red Circle Blue Square (1971) 1 copy

The hill / der berg (1999) 1 copy

A Poem for Thomas Merton (1969) 1 copy

27th and 4th (1994) 1 copy

Mostly Blue (1971) 1 copy

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Dog Poems: An Anthology (2021) — Contributor, some editions — 19 copies, 1 review

Omniverse Sun Ra (2015) — Contributor — 14 copies

Locus Solus III-IV (1962) — Contributor — 2 copies

Proteus Magazine, No. 4 — Contributor — 1 copy

Lines, No. 6 — Contributor — 1 copy

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A Catch of Anti-Letters by Thomas Merton

This volume of 55 or 60 letters represents a portion of the witty, buoyant, exuberant correspondence between Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-68) and minimalistic poet Robert Lax (1915-2000); the two were classmates at Columbia University in the late 1930s, and lifelong friends thereafter

Sep 4, 2006

RachelGMB 121 reviews

Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax