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Robert Lax: Poet, Pilgrim, Prophet

Robert Lax: Poet, Pilgrim, Prophet Jeannine Mizingou Robert Lax died at the age of eighty-four in his hometown of Olean, New York, on September 26, 2000. A funeral mass was celebrated at St. Bonaventure University Chapel, and a memorial mass was held at Corpus Christi Church in New York City. In The Seven-Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton characterizes the contemporary American poet Robert Lax as a "potential prophet, but without rage." Jack Kerouac describes Robert Lax as "simply a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way."1 It has been stated that Lax's Circus of the Sun "is, in all probability, the finest volume of poems published by an English-speaking poet of the generation which comes in T. S. Eliot's wake."2 A sparse amount of literary criticism has been done on Lax. He is regarded "as among America's greatest experimental poets, a true minimalist. . . . Lax remains the last unacknowledged and, alas, uncollected major poet of his post-60s generation."3 Part of this neglect was arguably self-imposed, as he lived in Greece from the 1960s until just weeks before his death in logos 4:1 winter 2001 Robert Lax in Patmos, May 2000. Photo by Ted-David Mizingou. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture Logos: Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture

Robert Lax: Poet, Pilgrim, Prophet

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Jeannine Mizingou Robert Lax died at the age of eighty-four in his hometown of Olean, New York, on September 26, 2000. A funeral mass was celebrated at St. Bonaventure University Chapel, and a memorial mass was held at Corpus Christi Church in New York City. In The Seven-Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton characterizes the contemporary American poet Robert Lax as a "potential prophet, but without rage." Jack Kerouac describes Robert Lax as "simply a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way."1 It has been stated that Lax's Circus of the Sun "is, in all probability, the finest volume of poems published by an English-speaking poet of the generation which comes in T. S. Eliot's wake."2 A sparse amount of literary criticism has been done on Lax. He is regarded "as among America's greatest experimental poets, a true minimalist. . . . Lax remains the last unacknowledged and, alas, uncollected major poet of his post-60s generation."3 Part of this neglect was arguably self-imposed, as he lived in Greece from the 1960s until just weeks before his death in logos 4:1 winter 2001 Robert Lax in Patmos, May 2000. Photo by Ted-David Mizingou.

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Published: Feb 1, 2001

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