Modern Algebra and Discrete Structures

Science & Math

Lax, Robert

Mathematics

Pearson

Ever 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 85-year-old poet built a following in the U.S. 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 1940s 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.

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

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

GROVE PRESS

"Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words." -Richard Kostelanetz, New York Times Book Review 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 85-year-old poet built a following in the U.S. 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 1940s 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.

Love Had a Compass: Journals and Poetry

Collects works by the American poet, ranging from fables and parables to an account of a circus day, to insistent descriptions of his search for truth

33 Poems

New Directions

Thirty-Three Poems

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.

A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 17-19 A three-pack of our Spring 2015 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring: A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics, by Robert Lax Dirt Poem, by Ferreira Gullar Hospital Series, by Amelia Rosselli

Poetry Pamphlets 17-19 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Rosselli, Amelia

Gullar, Ferreira

A selection of the greatest poems from one of poetry’s most beloved mystics 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 &amp; Sky and The Circus of the Sun, “perhaps the greatest English-language poem of this century” (The New York Times).

33 Poems (New Directions, 1434)

The author's first book of new poetry published in the United States since the 1960s explores the limits of abstract, minimalist, and experimental concrete poetry.

A Thing That Is

Abrams Press

In his first new collection of poems since the 1960s, the expatriate American poet continues the avant-garde work that marked his work from the 1940s through the 1960s, with abstract, minimalist, and experimental concrete poems. Reprint.

A Thing That is: New Poems

Overlook Books

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