World Outside the Window: Selected Essays - Hardcover

Morrow, Bradford; Rexroth, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811210243 ISBN 13: 9780811210249

Publisher: New Directions, 1987

Synopsis

Essays on poetry and society from the 1930's to the 1970's covering a wide variety of artists and issues from alchemy to jazz to Eastern influences on Western literature

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called 'an American cultural monument.'

About the Author:

Bradford Morrow's novels include The Diviner’s Tale, Giovanni's Gift, and Trinity Fields, and co-edited with David Shields The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death. The recipient of numerous awards, he founded and edits the literary journal Conjunctions and is a professor of literature at Bard College. He lives in New York City.

Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0811210243
• ISBN 13: 9780811210249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326