Bøger af Robert Lax

A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.

Originally published in 1996, Love Had a Compass was lauded as one of the best portraits of Lax's life and work.Love Had a Compass was the first and remains the only collection of Lax's work to print his previously unpublished sequence of poems, Port City: The Marseille Diaries, which is often considered Lax's finest work.New Directions will also reissue Robert Lax's 33 Poems in February. This simultaneous reissue is sure to attract media and review attention

The American poet Robert Lax belongs to the generation of Thomas Merton, Beat poetry, Abstract Expressionism, and the compositions of John Cage. Yet he stands out as this era's most intriguing minimalist poet, gaining this reputation through a constant questioning of the universe and our idea about it. His poetry varies from fables and parables to clear-cut columns of words, from his account of a day at the circus as a vision of creation to his own insistent and mystical search for truth.        33 Poems presents the quintessential gathering of Lax's work, including Sea & Sky and The Circus of the Sun, "perhaps the greatest English-language poem of this century" (The New York Times).

Three medium-length poems by America's forgotten hermit poet and master of concrete minimalism.

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