Books
Despite Linda Hamalian’s obvious sympathy for her subject, Kenneth Rexroth comes off in this first major biography as a not very likable man.
May 5, 1991
In response to the letter of Lise King Couchot (June 2): Were Linda Hamalian’s “A Life of Kenneth Rexroth” just a book of literary criticism, I would have confined my review (May 5) solely to the subject of Kenneth Rexroth’s writing.
June 30, 1991
Reviewer Gerald Nicosia should be congratulated for bringing a National Enquirer mentality to the pages of The Times (“A Life of Kenneth Rexroth” by Linda Hamalian, May 5).
June 2, 1991
World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth; edited by Bradford Morrow (New Directions: $22.95; 326 pages) A single essay in “World Outside the Window” will serve to illustrate the extraordinary intellectual inventiveness of the late poet, translator and essayist, Kenneth Rexroth.
Aug. 13, 1987
In his review of “The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth” (Book Review, March 31), Clayton Eshleman quotes from my introduction: “Each of (Rexroth’s) four wives may be seen as touchstones through which his philosophy of sacrament and communal love is comprehended.”
May 5, 1985
The Kenneth Rexroth poem, “Requiem for the Spanish Dead” (Book Review, July 15), can be found in print in “The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth” (W.W.
July 22, 2001
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, Edited by Sam Hamill and Bradford Morrow, Copper Canyon Press: 768 pp., $40
Feb. 9, 2003
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It is deep twilight, my wife And girls are fixing supper In the kitchen.
Oct. 19, 1997
From “The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth,” edited by Sam Hamill and Bradford Morrow (Copper Canyon Press: 768 pp., $40)
Aug. 3, 2003
LOVE POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE translated by Kenneth Rexroth, edited by Sam Hamill (Shambhala: $6; 129 pp., paperback original).
June 26, 1994