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Rexroth, Kenneth - 1905–82, American poet, critic, and translator, b. South Bend, Ind. A resident of San Francisco, he was briefly associated with the beat generation, although he disdained their lack of discipline. Self-educated, he taught himself several languages; his translations include One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1956) and The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (with Ling

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World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth » Read Now
by Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth. 326 pgs.

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This book brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called 'an American cultural monument.'
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One Hundred Poems From the Japanese » Read Now
by Kenneth Rexroth. 140 pgs.

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This is a collection of translations from Chinese done down the years solely to please myself. It is offered with no pretense to scholarship or to mastery of that complex subject, Sinology.
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Beyond the Mountains » Read Now
by Kenneth Rexroth. 190 pgs.

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Kenneth Rexroth's sequence of four short plays, Beyond the Mountains, was first brought out by New Directions in 1951, then reprinted in 1966 by City Lights Books.
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The Collected Longer Poems (includes poems from "The Phoenix and the Tortoise," "The Homestead Called Damascus," and more) » Read Now
by Kenneth Rexroth. 307 pgs.

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Selected Poems » Read Now
by Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth. 152 pgs.

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The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature (includes "The Love Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth") » Read Now
by Donald Gutierrez. 202 pgs.

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These essays probe the labyrinth as a metaphor for the acute sense of loss, disorientation, and alienation in a selection of 20th century writers such as James, Joyce, and Lawrence.
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Contemporaries (includes "Father Rexroth and the Beats") » Read Now
by Alfred Kazin. 514 pgs.

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...CRITICS TASK 467 Writing for Magazines 469 Saints for Our Time 474 Father Rexroth and the Beats 480 Tynans Theater 485 The Poet against the English Department 489...
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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another (inlcudes "Kenneth Rexroth on Homero Aridjis") » Read Now
by Ilan Stavans. 332 pgs.

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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of...
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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. With Mutual Impressions Ilan Stavans dispels these notions by showing how solid the bridges between writers and across borders have been -- at least since the early days of this century -- and how crucial they are likely to become as we enter the next millennium.
Divided into symmetrical halves -- South reading North and North reading South -- the book presents essays by leading novelists, poets, and other writers that focus on the work of another literary figure from across the divide. Borges, for example, finds in Hawthorne the perfect precursor to his own interest in allegories; Katherine Anne Porter examines Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi as a rascal whose picaresque views of life in The Itching Parrot served to launch the Latin American novel; Cortazar's study of the plots and style of Poe show an affinity that left an indelible mark on the Argentine's short fiction; Susan Sontag views Machado de Assis as the ultimate mirror, a proto-postmodernist.
With other essays by Thomas Pynchon, William H. Gass, John Updike, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, John Barth, Robert Coover, Pedro Henriquez Urena, Grace Paley, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Mark Strand, among others, Mutual Impressions offers a remarkable view of the connections that comprise a literary tradition of the Americas. It is a book that will surprise and enliven its readers as it informs and awakensin them a sense of wonder.
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Leaders From the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism (includes a section on Kenneth Rexroth) » Read Now
by David De Leon. 610 pgs.

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The radicals and liberals of the 1960s expressed ideas that continue to both attract and repel people decades later. Nostalgia books relive the Woodstock festival and the protests; past Presidents Bush and Reagan remember the era with unease; and scholars skirmish over the meaning of the period...
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The radicals and liberals of the 1960s expressed ideas that continue to both attract and repel people decades later. Nostalgia books relive the Woodstock festival and the protests; past Presidents Bush and Reagan remember the era with unease; and scholars skirmish over the meaning of the period. DeLeon is the first to provide information on activists of the period and their continued activities into the 1990s. With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, the book includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent personalities of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated those years, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and those who have come into the limelight since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. The volume also includes extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.
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Rexroth's Incarnation, in Explicator » Read Now
by Donald Gutierrez. 3 pgs.

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...Kenneth Rexroth: The Phoenix and The Tortoise . Copyright 1944 by Kenneth Rexroth . Reprinted by permission of...Morgan Gibson in his book Kenneth Rexroth puts it somewhat...
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (includes a section on Kenneth Rexroth) » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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...A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM Modern American Literature Compiled and edited by DOROTHY NYREN Librarian, Concord Free Public...