The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
by Kenneth Rexroth
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Kenneth Rexroth is a poet of enormous achievement. The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling. This is the definitive Rexroth volume.Tags
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Perhaps the finest love poet of the the 20th century and also a skilled poet of the natural world, capable of evoking extremely vivid images with what seems like the simplest language, Rexroth is too often remembered more for his role in founding the San Francisco Poetry Center and his support of many of the "Beat" poets (which earned him the title "father of the beat generation", a title he repeatedly rejected) than for his own poetry. Copper Canyon publisher (and poet) Sam Hamill and poet Bradford Morrow have undertaken to right this injustice by presenting this defintive volume of Rexroth's complete poems. While this edition does not include Rexroth's remarkable translations from Japanese, Chinese and other languages, it does collect show more all of his other published poems and a selection from his earliest unpublished poetry. A must-buy for any lover of 20th century poetry in English. show less
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Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, and worked at a wide variety of jobs, being largely self-educated. In the late 1950s, he won a number of awards, including an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He translated widely, mainly from the Japanese, show more and wrote a lively account of his life, An Autobiographical Novel. His work influenced many younger poets, such as Snyder, and continued in part the traditions of imagism and objectivism. A critic as well as a poet, his collections of essays include American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971) and Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (1975). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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