(New York: Journeyman Books, 1959).
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Hardcover. First edition. Cloth and photographically illustrated papercovered boards. Drawings and design by Emil Antonucci. Cover photograph by Charles Harbutt. Fine, lacking the original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by both Lax and Antonucci. Additionally briefly Inscribed by Antonucci: "For Walter / Emil," and with a slip presenting the book as a Christmas present, Signed by Antonucci. Lax's first and most famous book, a meditation on the Creation, described in *The New York Times* as "perhaps the greatest English language poem of this century." Lax was a close friend of Thomas Merton's and their correspondence was published. Occasionally described as a hermit, Lax did little to advance his literary career. His sparing use of words qualifies him as one of the founders of literary minimalism.
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