Lifelong friend of Trappist Monk Thomas Merton and abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, Robert Lax wrote spare poems that, in their beguiling simplicity, provoke anxieties about how and why we read. A ...
Poetry has two kinds of music. There is the sound it makes when read aloud, and then it has an inner composition, too -- that strange, occult rhythm verses make when your mind, not your lips, mouths ...
Like so many of her great poems, this almost-riddle combines a childlike simplicity with great complexity Under the Light, yet under Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the ...