Robert Lax studied at Columbia University in New York. Lax began steadily reducing his poetry to an absolute bare minimum. He applied the same approach to his way of life. He demonstrated that the bare landscape and slow pace of the island form a necessary counter-world to the fast pace and noise of our civilization.
Robert Lax (1915-2000) retreats in 1964 to the Greek island of Kalymnos and later to Patmos. This American poet was repeatedly described as the greatest unknown of American literature; yet his Minimalist poetry, verging on the radical, was widely acknowledged beyond the literary scene.
Born in Olean, New York, poet Robert Lax, worked as an editor for the New Yorker, Jubilee, and PAX. His minimalist poems often stretch in a narrow vertical column down the page, finding variation and transformation within a small pool of words, engaging meaning and sound at the unit of the syllable.
You may encounter him in his poems in this book.
