A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics

by Robert Lax

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811223299
• ISBN13: 9780811223294
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"