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Bob Lax, a Transparent Poet

Bob Lax, a Transparent Poet Review Essay B OB L AX , A T RANSPARENT P OET J IM F OREST Alkmaar, The Netherlands Georgiou, Steve. The Way of the Dreamcatcher . Toronto ON: Novalis, 2002. Pp. 284. $14.95 paper. Lax, Robert. Circus Days and Nights . Ed. and Intro. Paul J. Spaeth. Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, 2001. Pp. 188 + illustrations. $26.95 cloth. * I n a culture crowded with self-promoting, self-obsessed artists carrying huge, brightly lit posters of themselves, Bob Lax was an invisible man. While there seems not to have been a day of his life that didn’t give birth to a poem, many of which were published, he may be the important poet of the past century who was most successful in eluding the public gaze. He made his Ž rst signiŽ cant appearance in American letters not through his own writings but in his friend Thomas Merton’s autobio- graphy, The Seven Storey Mountain , published in 1948. Merton described Lax as “lean as an exclamation mark,” “a gentle prophet who seemed to be meditating on some impenetrable woe,” “a born contemplative” who could “curl his long legs all around a chair, in seven di V erent ways, while http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

Bob Lax, a Transparent Poet

Forest, Jim
Religion and the Arts , Volume 7 (3): 323 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Review Essay B OB L AX , A T RANSPARENT P OET J IM F OREST Alkmaar, The Netherlands Georgiou, Steve. The Way of the Dreamcatcher . Toronto ON: Novalis, 2002. Pp. 284. $14.95 paper. Lax, Robert. Circus Days and Nights . Ed. and Intro. Paul J. Spaeth. Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, 2001. Pp. 188 + illustrations. $26.95 cloth. * I n a culture crowded with self-promoting, self-obsessed artists carrying huge, brightly lit posters of themselves, Bob Lax was an invisible man. While there seems not to have been a day of his life that didn’t give birth to a poem, many of which were published, he may be the important poet of the past century who was most successful in eluding the public gaze. He made his Ž rst signiŽ cant appearance in American letters not through his own writings but in his friend Thomas Merton’s autobio- graphy, The Seven Storey Mountain , published in 1948. Merton described Lax as “lean as an exclamation mark,” “a gentle prophet who seemed to be meditating on some impenetrable woe,” “a born contemplative” who could “curl his long legs all around a chair, in seven di V erent ways, while

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