Kenneth Rexroth, Author, Sam Hamill, Editor, Bradford Morrow, Editor . Copper Canyon $40 (764p) ISBN 978-1-55659-171-6
Born in the Midwest but predominantly known as a founding poet of the San Francisco renaissance, Rexroth (1905–1982) wrote from deep within multiple traditions of world literature, Eastern and Western philosophy, and radical politics. Rexroth...
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Kenneth Rexroth, Author, Linda Hamalian, Editor New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (564p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1179-6
Hamalian revises and expands Rexroth's 1966 An Autobiographical Novel with material left after the poet's death in 1982. Rexroth's original memoir, which PW called ``one of the most lively and intelligent autobiographies we have read in years,''...
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Lee Bartlett, Author, Kenneth Rexroth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (292p) ISBN 978-0-393-02939-0
``You are becoming . . . a counter-revolutionary publisher,'' poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth blasted his friend and publisher James Laughlin. ``You are neurotic as hell,'' Laughlin, head of New Directions, wrote to the tantrum-prone muse of San...
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Bradford Morrow, Editor, Kenneth Rexroth, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1024-9
Rexroth (1905-1982) saw the modern poet as the enemy of the privileged and the powerful, since poetry is disruptive to rigid systems and ideas. In these pieces, he finds ties between Dylan Thomas's lyrics and Charlie Parker's saxophone solos, reads...
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