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Lax, Robert

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1915 - 2000-

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

27th & 4th, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27972-29122
Scope and Contents

The title is the address of the office building in New York City from which Lax observed the cityscape that inspired these poems. A vertical format to the poems layout is seen in these early poems (c.1958) which becomes more fully developed in his later sparer, more meditative poems. The illustrations were drawn by Steve Fairnie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

A Thing That Is, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29898-31285
Scope and Contents

The book was edited by Paul Spaeth who is the curator of the Lax Archives at St. Bonaventure University, He also contributed an introductory essay. The style of several poems in this book are reminiscent of ee cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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