Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Homage to Robert Lax
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayHomage to Robert Lax
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayThe ABCs of Robert Lax
Author: Robert LaxPublisher: Small Press United
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Poetry. Essays. Interviews. Letters. "He's good, isn't he!," commented Samuel Beckett, and little else need be said of Robert Lax. The ABCs of Robert Lax assembles a truly panoramic array of essays on Lax's writings; with extensive interviews, examples of his correspondence and key texts from his previously unpublished poems, prose and autobiographical reflections, this book provides both text and context. Written in relative isolation on the islands of Kalymnos and Patmos, Lax's poetry has been consistently championed by such writers as Thomas Merton, Mark Van Voren, Susan Howe and Denise Levertov, and by artists, musicians and filmmakers. "all things bade him, all things invited him to join" (from "Tractatus VI"); The ABCs of Robert Lax bids us, invites us into the vivid experimental world of a poet who is, in Jack Kerouac's words, "a Pilgrim in search of beautiful Innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way."
Homage to Robert Lax
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPure Act
Author: Michael N. McGregorPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823268039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award Finalist, Washington State Book Award Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton’s best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple wisdom of the local people. Born a Jew, he became a Catholic and found the authentic community he sought in Greek Orthodox fishermen and sponge divers. In his early life, as he alternated working at The New Yorker, writing screenplays in Hollywood and editing a Paris literary journal with studying philosophy, serving the poor in Harlem and living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps, Lax pursued an approach to life he called pure act―a way of living in the moment that was both spontaneous and practiced, God-inspired and self-chosen. By devoting himself to simplicity, poverty and prayer, he expanded his capacity for peace, joy and love while producing distinctive poetry of such stark beauty critics called him “one of America’s greatest experimental poets” and “one of the new ‘saints’ of the avant-garde.” Written by a writer who met Lax in Greece when he was a young seeker himself and visited him regularly over fifteen years, Pure Act is an intimate look at an extraordinary but little-known life. Much more than just a biography, it’s a tale of adventure, an exploration of friendship, an anthology of wisdom, and a testament to the liberating power of living an uncommon life.
Poems (1962-1997)
Author: Robert LaxPublisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 193351776X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.
Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980
Author: Natalie FerrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019885269X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades following the Second World War. By offering a chronological overview of the period in Britain, it questions how abstraction came to be discovered, absorbed and reimagined in literature.
The Improvisation Studies Reader
Author: Rebecca CainesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136187146
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Interdisciplinary approach chimes with current teaching trends Each section opens with specially commissioned thinkpiece from major scholar The first reader to address improvisation from a performance studies perspective
Contemporary Poets
Author: Thomas RiggsPublisher: Detroit, MI : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
This reference work combines bibliographical, biographical and critical information on 900 living poets writing in the English language. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and this edition includes 120 new entrants, including Wendy Cope, Benjamin Zephaniah and Rachel McAlpine.
Poetry Review
Author: Stephen PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
vol. 1, no. 2; Feb. 1912 includes Prologomena, by Ezra Pound.