Showing posts with label Robert Lax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Lax. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
ROBERT LAX ~
one bird
two birds
one bird
two birds
two birds
one bird
two birds
one bird
one bird
two birds
one bird
two birds
two birds
one bird
two birds
one bird
one
~
"are you a visitor?" asked
the dog.
"yes," i answered.
"only a visitor?" asked
the dog.
"yes," i answered.
"take me with you," said
the dog.
~
every
night
in the
world
is a
night
in the
hospital
The Angel
and the Little Old Lady
an angel
appeared to
a little old
lady
& said:
would you
like a
wish?
for my
grand-daughter,
said the little
old lady:
that she grew
up to be a
beautiful young
lady
& marry a
nice young
man
two wishes,
said the angel,
would you
like another?
whatever other
good thing you
can think of,
said the little
old lady
the girl grew up
to be a beautiful
young lady
& married a
nice young man
after a year or
so, a child was
born to them
(the angel's
idea)
- - -
now the old
lady was
quite a bit
older:
the angel
appeared
to her again
& said:
would you
like a
wish?
for the
child, she
said
that he grew
up to be a
handsome
young man
& marry
a nice
young girl
two wishes
said the angel,
would you
like another?
whatever other
good thing
you can think
of,
said the little
old lady
_______________
Robert Lax
33 Poems
New Directions
2019
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Monday, February 15, 2016
ROBERT LAX ~
Duke University, 2015
Yes, the new Lax biography by Michael N. McGregor is very good, if not a bit tedious in how the author has to work through so many personal passages of his own but after a bit of time I started to fall into his affection for Lax, which I already have, and now we are one happy family as I come to the home stretch. The period when Lax was publishing little strips of publications with Emil Antonucci I was living through as he was sending them to me and somewhere I have a few of those, and elsewhere I have picked them up and sold them as a bookseller. Sometimes what we have sold has paved the way for publishing a new book by another poet. It’s the balancing act. And it isn’t so much just the poetry of Lax that gets to me, many poems are wrung our twists of things, it’s simply his look (wiry and odd and gentle) and his way of living and just how he went about writing and living his poetry that greatly grabbed me from the start. These three small Greek islands — Kalymnos, Patmos, and Lipsi — long his home. Who would suspect he had been great friends with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, had his poems highly supported by John Ashbery and James Laughlin, that he had run away with the circus for a time, worked on scripts in Hollywood, was on the staff at The New Yorker and through it all kept his head? Today many of his thin booklets of poems fetch hundreds of dollars, whereas he lived a spartan and seemingly joyous life. By the way, may the author repair the typo to John Martone's publication "tel-let" (and not "tel-net") on page 387. Lax would encourage that repair since he so believed in the smallest of the small poetry journals.
[ BA ]
R O B E R T L A X
Friday, June 19, 2015
HERMIT'S GUIDE TO HOME ECONOMICS (ROBERT LAX) ~
Robert Lax
Hermit's Guide to Home Economics
New Directions poetry pamphlet #17
edited by Paul Spaeth
New Directions 2015
Thursday, September 26, 2013
ROBERT LAX : POEMS (1962-1997) ~
Robert Lax
one stone
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
and i am
thinking
i am
thinking
as i lift
one stone
one stone
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
and i am
thinking
i am
thinking
as i lift
one stone
i am
thinking
as i lift
one stone
one stone
i am
thinking
as i lift
one stone
one stone
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
one stone
i lift
one stone
and i am
thinking
___________
the air
and the dream:
the dream
and the air:
the flow
of the dream:
the flow
of the air.
_____________
"are you a visitor?" asked
the dog.
"yes," i answered.
"only a visitor?" asked
the dog.
"yes," i answered.
"take me with you," said
the dog.
______________
Here comes one more modest tome from the good hands at Wave Books — modest in design and a no frills beauty all its own. The size and dimensions of the press' books are often hidden, until you begin reading. Reading are what books are all about — a funny, yet knowing statement for sure. The above selection of poems by Lax is a mere touch into the scope of this collection, rounding up nearly forty years of the poet's work. . .some of which I once received decades ago from Journeyman Press, in elegant simple pressings. I haven't looked at those booklets for years but I was struck by the starkness, brief color and resonance all at once. The Wave collection is handsomely edited by John Beer: he presents, gets out of the way, but not before a heady introduction.
No poetry library goes far without this book.
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