MYSTERY; PAX number 9
first edition
1959 · NY
by McALLISTER, Claire
NY, 1959. First Edition. Broadside, (11-1/2 x 16-3/4 in) printed in pink and black on thin paper, folded into quarters (closed tear along one fold), a good copy. Scarce. Bob Lax, editor of the Kerouac and other issues of PAX, was Thomas Merton's number one friend who left the New Yorker to join a circus troupe, and ended up living(almost more monastically than Merton) in Greece for many years. 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. (Inventory #: 51400)