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Hermit's guide to home economics / Robert Lax ; edited, with an afterword, by Paul J. Spaeth.
- Title
- Hermit's guide to home economics / Robert Lax ; edited, with an afterword, by Paul J. Spaeth.
- Author
- Lax, Robert
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- 46 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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. --Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- New Directions poetry pamphlet ; 17
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections. 2015
- New Directions poetry pamphlets ; #17.
- Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.
- Alternative Title
- Poems. 2015
- Genre/Form
- American poetry – 20th century.
- Poems.
- Poetry
- Note
- Poems.
- "First published as New Directions Poetry Pamphlet #17 in 2015."
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Hermit's guide to home economics -- At night -- The citizen / Robert Lax ; Afterword / Paul J. Spaeth
- ISBN
- 9780811223294
- 0811223299
- LCCN
- ^^2014040056
- OCLC
- 881042459
- SCSB-10881113
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library