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Robert Lax

Author of A Catch of Anti-Letters

32+ Works 215 Members 2 Reviews 4 Favorited

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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Works by Robert Lax

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Omniverse Sun Ra (2015) — Contributor — 13 copies
New World Writing #13: Stories, Poetry, Essays, Drama (1958) — Contributor — 4 copies
Locus Solus III-IV, New Poetry, A Special Double Issue (1962) — Contributor — 2 copies
Proteus Magazine, No. 4 — Contributor — 1 copy
Lines, No. 6 — Contributor — 1 copy

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RachelGMB | Aug 5, 2015 |
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
 
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LTW | Sep 4, 2006 |

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