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Kenneth Rexroth
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…
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A sampling of the writings of Chinese women poets from ancient times to the twentieth century is accompanied by brief biographies and a discussion of their influence on Chinese literature.
Linda Hamalian
Linda Hamalian is to be saluted for the sheer amount of detection and unraveling she has brought to her life of Kenneth Rexroth. It’s the kind of information everyone seems…
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The definitive volume of Rexroth’s poetry now available in paperback.
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Discover the best of modern British poetry with The New British Poets, a stunning anthology that showcases the exceptional talent of emerging writers from across the UK. From haunting lyrical…
One Hundred Poems From The Japanese is a collection of classic Japanese poetry translated into English by Kenneth Rexroth. The book features a hundred poems from various Japanese poets, including…
Classic Greek poetry with a touch of the Beat
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An introduction to the world’s great literature is presented in sixty critical essays, each of which discusses the theme, summarizes the plot and explores the work’s implications.
The original texts are presented in romaji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet, in this collection representative of a wide range of classical, medieval, and modern poetry
This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth’s shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from…
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.
The late Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century’s great American poets.
When the poet Kenneth Rexroth died in 1982, he left behind a sequel to An Autobiographical Novel (1966). His published memoir–all 365 pages of it–stopped at 1927, when the twenty-two-year-old…
Donald Gutierrez
Professor Gutierrez’s study of San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth’s best short poems over a span of fifty years is rooted in his belief that many of these poems approach major…
Nota del autor … … Este poema fue escrito de una sentada, unas horas despues de recibir una llamada telefonica desde Nueva York con la noticia de que Dylan Thomas…
Includes Notes Toward An Understanding Of Kenneth Rexroth With Special Attention To The Homestead Called Damascus.
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.
This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967.
Bradford Morrow (Bard College),Kenneth Rexroth
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Frankly–H. Miller was defended by me only because he spoke against the War, and I think that was the main reason for his fame. Now–I do not believe, what with…
O.V. Milosz
A collection of poems by O.V. Milosz and translated by Kenneth Rexroth
From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan.
Kenneth Rexroth,Bradford Morrow
Discusses Lao Tzu, Euripides, Aristotle, Catullus, Virgil, Defoe, Swift, Balzac, Dickens, Parkman, Wells, and Kafka.
Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills. -American Poetry Review
Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity. -The New York Times
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Kenneth 1905- Rexroth
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
A E Waite
2019 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Originally published in 1929. The Kabbalah is the occult or secret tradition within…
Arthur Edward Waite
Considered by some as Hebrew witchcraft, the Kabbalah is the occult and secret tradition of Judaism, with origins far in the distant past. Here 19th-century scholar and researcher Arthur Edward…
Nature writings by one of America’s greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras.
Raphael Alberti,Mariano Brull
Additional Authors Include Nicolas Guillen, Pablo Neruda, Arturo Serrano Plaja, Federico Garcia Lorca And Antonio Machado.
Li Ch'ing-chao
Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and collapse in the face of the Tatar invasions, her poems reveal an imaginative freshness, sensuous imagery…
Kenneth 1905-1982 Rexroth
