1. Kenneth Rexroth - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Kenneth Rexroth December 22 June 6 ) was an American poet translator and critical essayist . He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku . He is regarded as a chief figure in the San Francisco Renaissance Rexroth had two daughters, Mary (who later changed her name to Mariana) and Katharine, by his third wife, Marthe Larsen. Contents Early years Travels Love, marriage, sacrament Poetic influences ... edit Early years Rexroth was born Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth in South Bend Indiana , the son of Charles Rexroth, a pharmaceuticals salesman, and Delia Reed. His childhood was troubled by his father's alcoholism and his mother's chronic illness. Rexroth was homeschooled by his mother, and by age four he was reading widely in the Classics and observing the natural world firsthand. His mother died in and his father in , after which he went to live with his aunt in Chicago and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago He spent his teenage years as an art student and soda jerk, along with other odd jobs. In

2. Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was born December 22, 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. Orphaned at fourteen, Rexroth moved to live with his aunt in Chicago, http://www.poets.org/krexr/

3. LitKicks: Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Rexroth was born on December 22, 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. He was integral to the emergence of the Beat poets, but did not consider himself a http://www.litkicks.com/People/KennethRexroth.html

Literary Kicks Visit the general discussion board or view list of boards Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Rexroth was born on December 22, 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. He was integral to the emergence of the Beat poets, but did not consider himself a member of this younger group himself. Rexroth had already led his own earlier cultural movement, a much publicized "poetry renaissance" in San Francisco , which helped to promote the idea of the Northern California city as a culturally 'happening' place. By the time Allen Ginsberg arrived at Rexroth's doorstep in 1953 with a letter of introduction from William Carlos Williams , the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance was already an established idea. Among the diverse poets who gravitated to this scene were several younger and fresher upstarts, like Gary Snyder Michael McClure and Philip Whalen . In October 1955 Rexroth lent his name and reputation to a loose poetry reading featuring this younger crowd. The reading at the Six Gallery caused a literary sensation and introduced the idea of the Beat Generation to the world. According to some biographical material, Rexroth later grew slightly irritated as the Beats began to reach immense fame, often offending his sensitive poetic ideals with their crazy hijinks. But this is typical old-guard vs. new-guard stuff. Rexroth was an important poet in his own scene, and deserves our eternal appreciation for having invented the idea of San Francisco as a center of literary innovation.

4. Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Rexroth. Kenneth Rexroth AKA Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth. Born 22Dec-1905 Father Charles Rexroth (pharma salesman, d. 1919) http://www.nndb.com/people/198/000049051/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Kenneth Rexroth AKA Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth Born: 22-Dec Birthplace: South Bend, IN Died: 6-Jun Location of death: Montecito, CA Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet , Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Disenchanted beat poet Father: Charles Rexroth (pharma salesman, d. 1919) Mother: Delia Reed (d. 1916) Wife: Andree Shafer (1st, painter, epileptic, m. 1927, d. 1940) Wife: Marie Kass (2nd, nurse, m. 1940, div. 1955) Wife: Marthe Larsen (3rd, m. 1949 bigamy, m. 1958, div. 1961, two daughters) Wife: Carol Tinker (4th, secretary, m. 1974) The Nation The San Francisco Examiner Columnist 1960-8 Pandering Sentenced to prison 1923-4 for owning a brothel Guggenheim Fellowship Fulbright Author of books: In What Hour , poetry) The Phoenix and the Tortoise , poetry) The Dragon and the Unicorn Bird in the Bush , essays) Assays , essays) An Autobiographical Novel Complete Collected Shorter Poems , poetry) Complete Collected Longer Poems , poetry) The Alternative Society , essays) With Eye and Ear , essays) American Poetry in the Twentieth Century , criticism) Beyond the Mountains , plays) New Poems , poetry) Do you know something we don't?

5. Kenneth Rexroth --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Kenneth Rexroth American painter, essayist, poet, and translator, an early champion of the Beat movement. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9063377/Kenneth-Rexroth

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6. Kenneth Rexroth - Wikiquote Interview with Kenneth Rexroth (April 1958), by Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, published in Rothenberg s A Book of Witness (2003) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover. Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth ) was an American poet, essayist, translator and anarchist Contents Sourced In Defense of the Earth (1956) She Is Away The Great Nebula of Andromeda ... edit Sourced All the reality that we can know is contingent, created out of nothing, and hence of an inferior order of reality. Faced with the “utterly other,” the contingent soul can finally only respond with fear and trembling. The existence of the creature, in so far as it exists, is the existence of God, and the creature’s experience of God is therefore in the final analysis equally unpredicable. Neither can even be described; both can only be indicated. We can only point at reality, our own or God’s. All night I lay awake beside you, Leaning on my elbow, watching your Sleeping face, that face whose purity Never ceases to astonish me.

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8. Kenneth Rexroth - Britannica Concise Kenneth Rexroth US painter, essayist, poet, and translator. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9376809/Kenneth-Rexroth

document.writeln(AAMB1); Rexroth, Kenneth Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Kenneth Rexroth born Dec. 22, 1905, South Bend, Ind., U.S. died June 6, 1982, Santa Barbara, Calif. U.S. painter, essayist, poet, and translator. The largely self-educated Rexroth spent much of his youth traveling in the West, organizing and speaking for unions. His early poems were experimental, influenced by Surrealism ; his later work was praised for its tight form and its wit and humanistic passion. He was an early champion of the Beat movement . His works include essays in Assays (1962) and With Eye and Ear (1970); and many translations of Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Latin, and Spanish poetry. document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Kenneth Rexroth" from the 32 Volume Rexroth, Kenneth - American painter, essayist, poet, and translator, an early champion of the Beat movement. jazz poetry - poetry that is read to the accompaniment of jazz music. Authors of such poetry attempt to emulate the rhythms and freedom of the music in their poetry. Forerunners of the style included the works of Vachel Lindsay, who read his poetry in a syncopated and rhythmic style for audiences, and Langston Hughes, who collaborated with musicians. Later poets known for their interest in combining the two ... anarchism - Anarchist presses published an enormous quantity of verse-indeed, before 1960 they published more poetry than all other forms of creative writing put together. Among the finest poets of anarchism was Voltairine de Cleyre, whom Emma Goldman considered the "most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Although the anarchist themes of de Cleyre's work were typical of her ...

9. Rexroth KENNETH REXROTH. SUBVERSIVE ASPECTS OF POPULAR SONGS. Many people – philosophers, philosophers of history, sociologists, anthropologists – believe that our http://www.poetspath.com/transmissions/messages/rexroth.html

KENNETH REXROTH SUBVERSIVE ASPECTS OF POPULAR SONGS The interesting thing about this kind of poetry is that although it is the voice of a new culture that promises soon to overtake and surpass the old, it is itself not new. Its roots go back in our civilization to the Middle Ages. The difference today is that it is no longer the voice of an outcast minority but of "everybody under thirty" from Tokyo to Rome, from Baghdad to Trinidad to Nome. The tradition is uninterrupted, still there in the same place since the day there first were students in Paris. Later in the Middle Ages, in French, Villon is the very archetype, the poet laureate of 500 years of the counterculture. So clearly does he speak for a way of life that his name has become a common noun and adjective in European languages. At the very beginning of the Middle Ages in Provence there grew up a vast literature of both written and sung poetry that reflected the life of a society more permissive than any to be seen in Europe until modern times. The songs of the troubadours have connections with the poetry of sexual mysticism which spread from India to Persia and across Islam to Muslim Spain. Their influence spread then to Germany, England, even to Constantinople. Whether it was part of the Albigensian heresy or not, the entire culture of Provence, the most civilized part of Europe, was obliterated in the Albigensian Crusade, the bloodiest war of extermination in the West until the invention of gunpowder. Today the influence of the troubadours on a few modern poet singers is apparent, but in the intervening centuries the connection was snapped. The same sexual mysticism can be found in the songs of Leonard Cohen or Anne Sylvestre, both of them strongly influenced by troubadour songs.

10. Another Spring Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Rexroth ~. (One Hundred Poems from the Chinese). Web archive of Panhala postings www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html. To subscribe to Panhala, http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Another_Spring.html

11. Kenneth Rexroth Archive This section of the BPS website is devoted to writings by and about the great poet, essayist, social critic and Renaissance man, kenneth rexroth (19051982) http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/

B U R E A U O F P U B L I C S E C R E T S Kenneth Rexroth Archive Introduction Texts at This Site Texts at Other Websites Rexroth Books in Print ... Out-of-Print Rexroth Books Introduction This section of the BPS website is devoted to writings by and about the great poet, essayist, social critic and Renaissance man, Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982). The emphasis will be on his out-of-print works (especially his numerous essays, articles and reviews), but it will also include selections from some of the in-print works. The primary aim is to introduce readers to a truly wonderful writer and encourage them to seek out whatever books of his are available. If enough interest is generated, perhaps publishers will bring more of his works back into print. Texts at This Site By Rexroth: Autobiography (excerpts) Classics Revisited (selections from two books) Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (complete book) Camping in the Western Mountains (complete, never-published book) Essays Poems Translations By Rexroth, translated into other languages: Poems translated into French (Jo l Cornuault) Le San Francisco de Kenneth Rexroth (Jo l Cornuault) Les Classiques revisit és l Cornuault) About Rexroth: The Relevance of Rexroth (complete book by Ken Knabb) loge de Kenneth Rexroth (same book in French) Erotismo, Misticismo y Revoluci

12. Kenneth Rexroth Page; Daily Bleed Saint; Anarchist Encyclopedia: Kenneth Rexroth kenneth rexroth. Born in 1905 orphaned at the age of twelve, rexroth spent most of his teenage years in Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

The Anarchist Encyclopedia: i am dreaming of the mountains where the children learn the stars clouds roll in from nebraska dark chords on a big guitar my restlessness is long gone i would stand here like an old jack pine but I'm looking for rexroth's daughter the friend of a friend of mine.... — Songster Greg Brown http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20000122/ra_files/000122_rexrawlsdaughter_28.ram http://www.gregbrown.org/index.html KENNETH REXROTH (before reading his poetry): “Well, what would you like tonight, sex, mysticism or revolution?” WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: “What’s the difference?” KENNETH REXROTH Daily Bleed Saint, December 22 http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/Rexroth.htm California rolls into Sleepy summer, and the air Is full of the bitter sweet Smoke of the grass fires burning On the San Francisco hills. Kenneth Rexroth Along the way he met Emma Goldman , Eugene Debs, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Darrow, D.H. Lawrence, Alexander Berkman San Francisco Libertarian Circle The Great Nebula of Andromeda We get into camp after Dark, high on an open ridge

13. PAL: Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) Translated, with an introd., by kenneth rexroth, with drawings by Geraldine Sakall. Ann Arbor U of Michigan P, 1962. PA3623.A5 R45 http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/rexroth.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) The Beat Page: KR Modern American Poetry: KR Rexroth's San Francisco Primary Works ... Kenneth Rexroth: Photo by Harry Redl Primary Works The dragon and the unicorn. Norfolk, Conn: New Directions 1952. PS3535 .E923 D7 One hundred poems from the Japanese. NY: New Directions, 1955? PL782.E3 R4.O5 One hundred poems from the Chinese. NY: New Directions, 1956. PL2658.E3 R4 In defense of the earth; poems. NY: New Directions, 1956. PS3535.E923 I48 Assays. Norfolk, Conn: J. Laughlin, 1961. PS3535.E923 A16 Poems from the Greek anthology. Translated, with an introd., by Kenneth Rexroth, with drawings by Geraldine Sakall. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1962. PA3623.A5 R45 Natural numbers; new and selected poems. Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1963. PS3535 .E923 A17 The homestead called Damascus. NY: New Directions, 1963. PS3535.E923 H6

14. Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Painter, Man Of Letters kenneth rexroth was a poet and a cofounder of the San Francisco Poetry Center. Born in 1905 in South Bend, Indiana, he was educated mainly by his parents. http://www.bonestamp.com/rexroth/

Kenneth Rexroth Six new Kenneth Rexroth essays have been added to the Bureau of Public Secrets website: GREEK TRAGEDY IN TRANSLATION http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/greek-tragedies.htm TRAGEDY AND PHILOSOPHY http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/kaufmann.htm WILLIAM BLAKE http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/blake.htm HENRY JAMES AND H.G. WELLS http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/james-wells.htm SAMUEL BECKETT http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/beckett.htm INTRODUCTION TO "BIRD IN THE BUSH: OBVIOUS ESSAYS" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/essays.htm Other Rexroth essays at the same website: Disengagement: The Art of the Beat Generation http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/beats.htm American Indian Songs http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/indiansongs.htm Some Thoughts on Jazz http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/jazz.htm Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/songs.htm Rimbaud as Capitalist Adventurer http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/rimbaud.htm Mark Twain http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/twain.htm

15. Rexroth.html Reprinted from World Outside the Window The Selected Essays of kenneth rexroth , edited by Bradford Morrow, New Directions 1987. Used by permission. http://www.oracularlab.com/oracularlab/truth/rexroth.html

JAZZ POETRY by Kenneth Rexroth Originally published in The Nation March 29, 1958 Reprinted from World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth , edited by Bradford Morrow, New Directions 1987. Used by permission. A little short of two years ago, jazz poetry was a possibility, a hope and the memory of a few experiments. Today it runs the danger of becoming a fad. The life of fads is most often intense, empty and short. I feel, on the contrary, jazz poetry has a permanent value or I would not have undertaken it. When it is successful there is nothing freakish or faddish about it nor, as a matter of fact, is there anything especially new. At the roots of jazz and Negro folk son, especially in the Southwest, is the "talking blues." It is not much heard today, but if you flatten out the melodic line, already very simple, in Big Bill Broonzy or Leadbelly, you have an approximation of it, and some of their records are really more talked than sung. This is poetry recited to a simple blue guitar accompaniment. Long before this, in the mid-nineteenth century, the French poet Charles Cros was reciting, not singing, his poems to the music of a bal musette band. Some of his things are still in the repertory of living

16. EarthSaint: Kenneth Rexroth See Life steadily, see it whole, kenneth rexroth was fond of stating. In pursuing this ideal, he lived a life of radical religion, politics, http://www.earthlight.org/earthsaint25.html

EarthSaint: Kenneth Rexroth Introduced by David Landis Barnhill Issue #25, Spring 1997, p 16-17 "See Life steadily, see it whole," Kenneth Rexroth was fond of stating. In pursuing this ideal, he lived a life of radical religion, politics, and art in which nature was a central and centering force. Born in 1905 in the midwest, as a teenager he dropped out of school and hopped a freight train to the West Coast in order to cultivate the art of being a "perceiving organism and moral agent." Settling in San Francisco, he camped often in the Sierras, developing a mystical vision of nature and love that is reflected in his poetry, his many essays, and a play in verse. Part of the depth of Rexroth's vision arises from his insistence on turning the contemplative gaze on the depravations of society as well as the beauty of nature. Darkness enriches his vision of light, and illumination is found in a night-bound world. In Time Is the Mercy of Eternity, he stands at the edge of a Sierra cliff looking at the San Joaquin Valley below: Far away the writhing city Burns in a fire of transcendence And commodities. The bowels

17. Kenneth Rexroth — Infoplease.com 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0841655.html

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18. Kenneth Rexroth- Poetry In Revolt rexroth was the first popular anarchist poet in America. Famous for his translations of Japanese poetry and his love poems he died in the 1970 s. http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/anarchistpoetry/Rexrothdir/Rexroth.html

Return to the Poets Archive Kenneth Rexroth Rexroth was the first popular anarchist poet in America. Famous for his translations of Japanese poetry and his love poems he died in the 1970's. He was a confirmed anarchist for most of his life, first socialist, then a syndicalist. Poems Between Myself and Death Thou Shalt Not Kill Between Two Wars Rexroth Links Relevance of Rexroth Rexroth archive at the situ-stupendous Bureau of Public secrets! E-Mail

19. Kenneth Rexroth An internet bibliography for kenneth rexroth, from LiteraryHistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Rexroth.htm

Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982) A selective bibliography of open access articles, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages main page 20th century authors 19th century authors ... about LiteraryHistory Literary criticism and analysis An introduction to Kenneth Rexroth, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry (MAP) site, Univ. of Illinois An article on Kenneth Rexroth's influence and poetry, by Jack Foley in the Alsop Review, 2/5/03 A brief review of Kenneth Rexroth's Chinese poetry translations, written for the ordinary reader, stresses how enjoyable they are. Review by Robert Westbrook "Re-Discovering Community: Rexroth and the Whitman Tradition," and essay by Linda Hamalian from Modern American Poetry site "On Rexroth's Poetry," an essay by Donald K. Gutierrez, 1999, from from Modern American Poetry site An essay on Rexroth's love poetry,

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