Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
| Author/creator | Rexroth, Kenneth Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation Scranton : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated [Distributor] |
| Description | 1 p. 20.500 x 013.200 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Twentieth-Century American Poetry |
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| Summary | Annotation 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 seven earlier books. Among the American poets of the generation that came to prominence in the Forties, Kenneth Rexroth has been notable both for the independence of his personal voice and for his accessibility to the tradition of international avant-garde literature. He began writing and publishing in magazines at fifteen. His earliest work was personal and concrete, much like that of the Imagists. In his twenties he wrote in the disassociative style sometimes called "literary cubism " developed by Mallarme, Apollinaire, and Reverdy. This was not free association, but the conscious disassociation and recombination of the elements of the poem to achieve the highest possible level of significance. With his later books Rexroth moved back to a direct and classically simple form of personal statement. In this period he wrote the great nature poems, the love poems, and the contemplative lyrics that have established his reputation as one of the most important American poets." |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 66017818 |
| ISBN | 9780811201780 |
| ISBN | 0811201783 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780811201780 |
| Stock number | 20178 00018960 |
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