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Powrót do raju – poezja Roberta Laxa
Return to Paradise: The Poetry of Robert Lax

Author(s): Małgorzata Poks
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej
Keywords: contemplation;mysticism;simplicity;joy;love;

Summary/Abstract: This review article of a volume of poetry In the Beginning Was Love: The Contemplative Words of Robert Lax (Templegate Publishers, 2015), written by a life-long friend of Thomas Merton and carefully selected for publication by Lax’s student and friend S.T. Georgiou, introduces the poet to Polish readers and discusses the most important features of his unique, apophatic and experimental poetry.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 237-243
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish