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Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) [1] was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement.
One Hundred Poems From the Chinese is a collection of translations of Chinese poetry by Kenneth Rexroth, first published in 1956. The book is in two parts: the first contains 35 poems by Du Fu, while the second consists of works by assorted Song dynasty poets. The book actually contains over one-hundred poems. [1]
Andrée Rexroth (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist. In the 1920s she married the poet Kenneth Rexroth . In 1927 the couple hitchhiked and camped their way from Indiana to San Francisco, California, where they settled. [ 2 ]
Beyond the Mountains is a play by Kenneth Rexroth that was staged by The Living Theatre. References. Altman, Peter (February 16, 1972).
Patchen was also a close peer of the West Coast poet Kenneth Rexroth, who shared Patchen's antiwar radicalism and his interest in combining poetry readings with jazz accompaniment. The two poets began a correspondence in the late 1940s and continued it in the 1950s. Rexroth encouraged the Patchens to move to San Francisco in the early 1950s ...
Kenneth Rexroth's apartment became a Friday night literary salon (Ginsberg's mentor William Carlos Williams, an old friend of Rexroth, had given him an introductory letter). When asked by Wally Hedrick [26] To organize the Six Gallery reading, Ginsberg wanted Rexroth to serve as master of ceremonies, in a sense to bridge generations.
Soon after settling in San Francisco in 1951, Ferlinghetti met the poet Kenneth Rexroth, whose concepts of philosophical anarchism influenced his political development. He self-identified as a philosophical anarchist , regularly associated with other anarchists in North Beach , and sold Italian anarchist newspapers at the City Lights Bookstore ...
Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese is a collection of translations of Chinese poetry by Kenneth Rexroth, first published in 1970.The book contains poetry translations from the Han dynasty on, including a section with a number of anonymous Six Dynasties poems.