Kenneth Rexroth

American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth (December 221905 – June 61982) was among the first poets in the United States to explore Japanese poetry traditions such as haiku. He is credited with having led the "poetry renaissance" in San Francisco and was associated with the Beat Generation, although he was later critical of the movement. Rexroth's poetry, essays and journalism reflect interests in jazz, politics, culture and ecology. Rexroth's poetic voice is similar to that of Du Fu, whom he translated, expressing indignation with the inequities of the world from an existential perspective.

Bibliography

As author

• Beyond the Mountains: Four Plays in Verse (1951). New York:New Directions
• Bird in the Bush: Obvious Essays (1959)
• Assays (1961)
• Classics Revisited (1964; 1986). New York:New Directions
• Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems (1991)
• Collected Shorter Poems (1966). New York:New Directions
• Collected Longer Poems (1968). New York:New Directions
• The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World (1970). Herder & Herder.
• With Eye and Ear (1970). Herder & Herder.
• American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971). Herder & Herder.
• The Elastic Retort: Essays in Literature and Ideas (1973). Seabury.
• Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (1974). Seabury.
• Selected Poems (1984). New York:New Directions
• World Outside the Window: Selected Essays (1987). New York:New Directions
• More Classics Revisited (1989). New York:New Directions.
• An Autobiographical Novel (1964; expanded edition, 1991). New York:New Directions
• Kenneth Rexroth & James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1991). Norton.
• Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems (1997). Copper Canyon.
• Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion (1999). Glad Day.
• Complete Poems (2003). Copper Canyon.

As translator

• 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile (1956). San Francisco:City Lights.
• 100 Poems from the French (1972). Pym-Randall.
• 100 Poems from the Chinese. New York:New Directions.
• 100 More Poems from the Chinese. New York:New Directions.
• Women Poets of China. New York:New Directions.
• Complete Poems of Li Ch’ing-Chao. New York:New Directions.
• 100 Poems from the Japanese. New York:New Directions.
• 100 More Poems from the Japanese. New York:New Directions.
• Women Poets of Japan. New York:New Directions.
• Seasons of Sacred Lust: Selected Poems of Kazuko Shiraishi. New York:New Directions.
• Selected Poems of Pierre Reverdy. New York:New Directions.
• 14 Poems by O. V. de Lubicz-Milosz. Copper Canyon.
• Poems from the Greek Anthology. Ann Arbor.