Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers
Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award Finalist,
Washington State Book Award Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert
Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a
spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William
Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people.
Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton's best friend and in Europe
as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a
promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live
among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of
remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple
wisdom of the local people. Born a Jew, he became a Catholic and
found the authentic community he sought in Greek Orthodox fishermen
and sponge divers. In his early life, as he alternated working at
The New Yorker, writing screenplays in Hollywood and editing a
Paris literary journal with studying philosophy, serving the poor
in Harlem and living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps, Lax
pursued an approach to life he called pure act a way of living in
the moment that was both spontaneous and practiced, God-inspired
and self-chosen. By devoting himself to simplicity, poverty and
prayer, he expanded his capacity for peace, joy and love while
producing distinctive poetry of such stark beauty critics called
him "one of America's greatest experimental poets" and "one of the
new 'saints' of the avant-garde." Written by a writer who met Lax
in Greece when he was a young seeker himself and visited him
regularly over fifteen years, Pure Act is an intimate look at an
extraordinary but little-known life. Much more than just a
biography, it's a tale of adventure, an exploration of friendship,
an anthology of wisdom, and a testament to the liberating power of
living an uncommon life.
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