"UNCLE"; Autograph Letter Signed "Sam"
Sept 5 Kalymnos (ca 1973)). 22 lines in holograph on this paper: "Uncle | Every day, all summer long | I say today I will write Bill & | tell him | Cheers | for Voyages | for John Unterdecker | for Victor Ilona | & Daniel Stern | & Herbert H Roth | & (naturally) for | Rene Char | & the Pope | & Mark Van Doren | & William Claire | all joys, all radiances ..." Item #52389
A convert to Roman Catholicism, the American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000), was a friend of of the famous Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton. A student of Mark Van Doren, he and Thomas Merton were also influenced by their friend Ad Reinhardt. In his later years Robert Lax chose to live as a hermit on the island of Patmos in Greece where, in a quest for simplicity, he became a leading figure in literary minimalism.
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