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  • Title Pure ACT: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
  • Author Michael N. McGregor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 472
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press
  • Date 2017-07
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780823276820 / 0823276821
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (22.10 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author


Michael N. McGregor, a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Portland State University, has lectured at universities, conferences, and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the International Thomas Merton Society.
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Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton's best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple wisdom of the local people. Born a Jew, he became a Catholic and found the authentic community he sought in Greek Orthodox fishermen and sponge divers.In his early life, as he alternated working at The New Yorker, writing screenplays in Hollywood and editing a Paris literary journal with studying philosophy, serving the poor in Harlem and living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps, Lax pursued an approach to life he called pure act―a way of living in the… Read More
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