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Written on the Sky

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811218375
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover

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Songs of Love Moon & Wind

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811218368
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover

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Twigs & Knucklebones

Kenneth Rexroth; Bradford Morrow; Sam Hamill

ISBN: 9781556591648
Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2002

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Cien Poemas Japoneses/ A Hundred Japanese Poems

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9788493603328
Publisher: Gadir Editorial Sl
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Softcover

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The Holy Kabbalah

Kenneth Rexroth; A.E. Waite

ISBN: 9780486432229
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover

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Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poerms of Protest and Rebellion

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9781930180024
Publisher: Glad Day Books
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover

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Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9781556590801
Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover

Poet, essayist, translator, Kenneth Rexroth was arguably the most influential poet west of the Mississippi. From his encouragement of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation, to his own translations of Japanese and Chinese poetry, he almost single-handedly redefined the way in which American poetry was written, taught, and read. Most importantly, he was one of the finest poets of the twentieth century and nowhere is this more evident than in his love poems. In their introduction to Sacamental Acts, Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura Kleiner write, "By turns revolutionary and conservative, simultaneously spiritual and worldly, Asian and Western, Kenneth Rexroth created what must surely be regarded as the most original synthesis of transcendent metaphysical and erotic verse ever written by an American poet. A polyglot iconoclast, Rexroth was steeped in the world's spiritual and literary traditions.... Whether writing of idealized love, love lost, a father's love, or of the deepest spiritual engagement, he achieved again and again in his poetry what he most longed for but could not find in his life, a passionate but utterly calm self-transcendent state of infinite connectedness ... transformed into something larger than either of the lovers themselves. He achieved something almost impossibly simple -- a glimpse of grace within our temporal flesh in a fragile world".

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Love Poems from the Japanese

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780877739821
Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Softcover

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Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811211789
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Softcover

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An Autobiographical Novel

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811211796
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Softcover

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Women Poets of China

Kenneth Rexroth; Ling Chung

ISBN: 9780811208215
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Softcover

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.

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More Classics Revisited

Kenneth Rexroth; Bradford Morrow

ISBN: 9780811210836
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: 1989

World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811210256
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Softcover

This book talks about Kenneth's twenty-seven essays written over a period of time of more than forty years. It remains the sanest guide to the cultural upheaval in American society since World War II.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1987

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Classics Revisited

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811209878
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardcover

The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisited discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, 'basic documents in the history of the imagination.' Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each about five pages long) first appeared in the Saturday Review.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986, Softcover - 1985

Selected Poems

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811209175
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Softcover

Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years work. The late Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most sophisticated.

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Other editions: 1984

Women Poets of Japan

Kenneth Rexroth; Ikuko Atsumi

ISBN: 9780811208208
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Softcover

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Li Ching-Chao: Complete Poems

Kenneth Rexroth; Ching-Chao Li; Ling Chung

ISBN: 9780811207454
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Softcover

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The Morning Star

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811207409
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: 1979

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Burning Heart: Women Poets of Japan

Kenneth Rexroth; Ikuto Atsumi

ISBN: 9780816493326
Publisher: Seabury Pr
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1977

One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811206198
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Softcover

Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1955) proved such an extremely popular book that he put together a sequel. The poems are representative of a large range of classical, medieval, and modern poetry, but the emphasis, as in him companion Chinese collections (1955 and 1970), is on folk songs and love lyrics.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1976

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The Silver Swan: Poems Written in Kyoto, 1974-75

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780914742227
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication Date: 1976

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New Poems

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780811205511
Publisher: New Directions Pub Corp
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: 1974

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Communalism:from Its Origins to the Twentieth Century: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780816492046
Publisher: Seabury Press
Publication Date: 1974

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The Elastic Retort: Essays in Literature and Ideas

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780816491681
Publisher: Seabury Press
Publication Date: 1973

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Sky, Sea, Birds, Trees, Earth, House, Beast

Kenneth Rexroth

ISBN: 9780877750482
Publisher: Unicorn Pr
Publication Date: 1973
Binding: Softcover

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