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eschenau summer press publications
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Didier Mathieu wrote: "his [= herman de vries - CS] response to work by the poet robert lax (avid reader of bashô, wittgenstein and friend of ad reinhardt's and hartmut geerken's) is more discrete and intimate in the four works published so far: circle (the eschenau summer press publications 38, 1996), more scales (the eschenau summer press publications 39, 1997), red blue (the eschenau summer press publications 41, 1999) and notebook (temporary travelling press publications 46, 2001). many of robert lax's poems point to common ground with the concerns expressed in herman de vries' own work. the following extract is only one of numerous examples that could be quoted; "[...] when things are in line they speak to each other / when things are in line they speak to the whole." (from a text read by robert lax in a film by nicolos humbert & werner penzel, why should i buy a bed when all that i want is sleep?, produced by the bayerischer rundfunk in 1999.] [...]"
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Robert Lax (1915-2000) was editor for the Parisian literary journal New Story, a co-founder and editor of the Catholic culture magazine Jubilee, and the founder/publisher of the poetry broadside Pax.- Although Lax had published many poems in various magazines and journals it was not until he met the graphic artist Emil Antonucci in the 1950's that his publishing career began to take shape. Antonucci began to publish materials by Lax in small press editions under the imprint of the Hand Press and later Journeyman Books. Because of the visual nature of his poetry Lax came to be published more and more in small press editions by graphic artists.
- A major retrospective of Lax materials was mounted at the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart in 1985. In 1987 Lax began an archive at St. Bonaventure University. Lax died on September 26, 2000.
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Based on pjs, a lax life [online] (2009); available at <http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/laxweb/a_lax_life.htm > [accessed 28 October 2010].
Robert Lax Archives- Read also: Karen Alexander, 'The Abstract Minimalist Poetry of Robert Lax', published in Interval(le)s I, 1 (Automne 2004) [online]; available at < http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/pdf/alexander.pdf > [accessed 28 October 2010].
- Robert Lax : notebook
the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publications
[herman de vries editor]
eschenau 2001
eschenau summer press publication 46
Printed by vonhausen & barent, oberhohenried
Edition 108 copies, numbered.
Blue cover, offsetprint
96 p.
24 × 16.5 cm
figure left: 2 out of 96.
- Didier Mathieu, 'in the thick of life', in herman de vries : les livres & les publications. catalogue raisonné (centre des livres d'artistes/pays-paysage : saint-yrieix-la-perche 2005) 72-81. Also in French and German.
