Poems (1962-1997)

Poems (1962-1997)By Robert Lax, edited by John Beer Description Reviews Poems (1962 1997) gathers 35 years of Robert Laxs work, rarely published and largely composed in solitude on the island of Patmos. Compiled and edited by the poets former assistant John Beer, this selection reflectsthrough meditative sequences in striking vertical columnsLaxs rigorous attention to the world around him, and his relentless aspiration to new ways of writing. His poems are, like the

even as it embraces poetry like a toxic lover

Publication Date: October 6

projecting worlds dominated by dream logic and impossible (and often hilarious) dimensions

the poems’ sentence fragments are highly visual

I enjoyed the breathless texture and brevity of these poems—as if they could barely bear themselves

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who delight in finding treasures that others have ignored

ISBN# 9780970367280 (7x9 64pp

afflicted poems attend to the writer’s lifelong obsessions with being and mortality

Mary Ruefle’s My Private Property is a book that

Scott Riley

O'Brien's meditative poems -- both lyric and lapidary -- interrogate the forces that press us into patterns we don't recognize