Hermit's guide to home economics
Three medium-length poems by America's forgotten hermit poet and master of concrete minimalism. Robert Lax’s Hermit’s Guide to Home Economics combines three long poems the poet composed on the Island of Patmos, where he lived a life separated from the rest of the world in the natural setting of...
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | English |
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New York
New Directions Publishing Corporation
[2015]
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Ausgabe: | First edition |
Schriftenreihe: | New Directions poetry pamphlet
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Zusammenfassung: | Three medium-length poems by America's forgotten hermit poet and master of concrete minimalism. Robert Lax’s Hermit’s Guide to Home Economics combines three long poems the poet composed on the Island of Patmos, where he lived a life separated from the rest of the world in the natural setting of that desert isle. Lax writes humorously about his "hermit" life, as if he were King Solomon doing a stand-up routine. But he also writes like a mystic whose surroundings speak to him, and uses the whole field of the page to explore the full potential of the word as image, and the poet as citizen |
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Beschreibung: | 46 Seiten 23 cm |
ISBN: | 9780811223294 |