PAX [No. 2] by Gilman, Richard, E. E. Cummings & Claire McAllister; Robert Lax [ed.] - 1956

New York: [Robert Lax], 1956. Softcover. Near fine. Ad Reinhardt. Broadside, cut once and folded twice to 9 x 6 inches. Printed red on newsprint. Tiny chips and small closed tears at edges, neat separations along folds, else fine, with original blank envelope.

The second issue of PAX, a poetry broadside printed at the press of JUBILEE magazine for Robert Lax. Lax (1915-2000) was a poet, editor, Catholic convert, and noted friend of Thomas Merton and painter Ad Reinhardt. After traveling for several years during the 1940s as a circus juggler, he became an early editor of JUBILEE, a lay Catholic magazine, in 1953, and produced 18 issues of PAX from 1956 to 1962, when he left the U.S. and permanently settled on the island of Patmos as a hermit. The present issue features cover art by Reinhardt and the poems, "Death of a the Hermit," by Richard Gilman, "Poem," by E. E. Cummings, and "The Brass-Clad Legions," by Claire McAllister. Scarce.