Marlborough, MA: Water Row Press, 2020. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Offered here is a gorgeous edition of a little-heralded and oft-forgotten classic of mid-century American literature, "The Circus of the Sun," a book-length poem by Robert Lax (1915-2000). Mystique hangs heavy about writers such as Lax, and a hazy combination of myth and intrigue both shapes and clouds what, if anything, we remember them for. In Lax's case, one can..... More