"Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave
awesome poems from remarkably few words." -Richard Kostelanetz, New
York Times Book Review Every generation of poets seems to harbor
its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance come to
light after his talent has already been achieved and exercised. The
same drama of obscurity and nuance that attended the discovery of
Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens is suggested by the career of
Robert Lax. An expatriate American whose work to date more than
forty books has been published mostly in Europe, this 85-year-old
poet built a following in the U.S. among figures as widespread as
Mark Van Doren, e. e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra. The works
in Love Had a Compass represent every stage of Lax's development as
a poet, from his early years in the 1940s as a staff writer for The
New Yorker to his present life on the Greek Island of Patmos. An
inveterate wanderer, Lax's own sense of himself as both exile and
pilgrim is carefully evoked in his prose journals and informs the
pages of the Marseille Diaries, published here for the first time.
Together with the poems, they provide the best portrait available
to date of one of the most striking and original poets of our age.
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