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Rexroth Kenneth
In the Sierra: Mountain Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
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Nature writings by one of America’s greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras. Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth’s poetry and prose described the way Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra. Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and correspondence. Famed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has compiled a gift for lovers of mountains and poetry both. This volume also contains Robinson’s introduction and notes, photographs of Rexroth, a map of Rexroth’s travels, and an amazing astronomical analysis of Rexroth’s poems by the fiction writer Carter Scholz.
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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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. The cloth edition was one of the most widely reviewed poetry titles in 2003: “Scholars and critics who endeavor to discuss mid-20th century American poetry responsibly ignore Rexroth at their peril.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review, cover feature and selected as a Book of the Year “Rexroth is probably best known as the ‘Father of the Beat Generation.’ These poems reveal that great beauty lies beyond that cliché.”—NPR’s All Things Considered “Rexroth’s prodigious breadth of learning, his hungry attention to the natural world, his contempt for warmongering and his profound, occasionally overlapping love of women are all on flourishing display.”—The San Francisco Chronicle “Rexroth never mistook his poetry for a product, and he could present ideas and images in an urgent, memorable and eloquent way.”—The Nation “Rexroth is one of the most readable and rewarding 20th-century American poets.”—Booklist Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) was one of the world’s great literary minds. In addition to being a poet, translator, essayist and teacher, he helped found the San Francisco Poetry Center and influenced generations of readers with his Classics Revisited series.
The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Books)
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The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth. The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful. Thirty-five poems by Tu Fu make up the first part of this volume. The translator then moves on to the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) to give us a number of poets of that period, much of whose work was not previously available in English. Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'iang Chao and Chu Shu Chen. There is a general introduction, biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems, and a bibliography of other translations of Chinese poetry.
100 Poems from the Japanese
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It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of classic Japanese poetry: the depth of controlled passion, the austere elegance of style, the compressed richness of imagery. The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. The translator's introduction gives us basic background on the history and nature of Japanese poetry, which is supplemented by notes on the individual poets and an extensive bibliography.
Women Poets of Japan
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From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan. In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles,followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets,and including the contemporary school of free verse—Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment. Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.
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A taste of America's past - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times, CA - Feb 04, 4293
A taste of America's past operated in all 48 states and employed more than 4500 writers, including Studs Terkel, Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Claude McKay, Conrad Aiken, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Kenneth Patchen, John Cheever and Kenneth Rexroth.
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Gained in translation: bringing Asian poetry to the English language - The Japan Times
The Japan Times, Japan - May 09, 2009
Cnet AsiaGained in translation: bringing Asian poetry to the English languageOne who successfully did just this is the American poet-translator Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), one of the first to explore Japanese poetic forms and himself a literary figure of note. He was leader of what became the San Francisco Renaissance; myGengo: Exciting Developments in Translation
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Rapid Transit - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Rail, NY - May 07, 2009
Rapid Transitby Jeffrey Cyphers Wright At 21, Jack Spicer joined Kenneth Rexroth's inner sanctum in San Francisco. Early poems foreshadowed the drill-bit addresses he would later hone. He ran an improv series called “Blabbermouth” and claimed his poems were like
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Tom Killion: In the arms of Mount Tam - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - May 19, 2009
Tom Killion: In the arms of Mount TamTheir vivid volume showcases the landscape through verse - by Snyder and others, including Lew Welch, Kenneth Rexroth and California's first poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith - and through Killion's distinctive, Japanese-style woodblock prints.
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Staff appears to want vote on funds for tech - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - May 11, 2009
Staff appears to want vote on funds for techHollis, who was the Arizona state champion, performed "The Bad Old Days" by Kenneth Rexroth and "I Grant You Ample Leave" by George Eliot. He plans to study theater and creative writing at the University of Arizona in the fall.
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