World Outside the Window: Selected Essays by Kenneth Rexroth

by Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (Editor)

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

Genres: Essays, Poetry

326 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Kenneth Rexroth 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. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was dubbed the "Father of the Beats" by Time magazine.

Largely self-educated, Rexroth learned several languages and translated poems from Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic themes and forms.

Rexroth died in Santa Barbara, California, on June 6, 1982. He had spent his final years translating Japanese and Chinese women poets, as well as promoting the work of female poets in America and overseas.

Reviews

[Jay Callahan]

More insight, intelligence and clear writing than you'll find in most whole universities.

Look for the original collections of essays that these were drawn from.

[Nathan]

I am very happy I came across this little gem at a thrift store. This was solid work on Buber and Gnosticism