Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin – Selected Letters - Hardcover

Kenneth Rexroth; James Laughlin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393029395 ISBN 13: 9780393029390

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Synopsis

Frankly―H. Miller was defended by me only because he spoke against the War, and I think that was the main reason for his fame. Now―I do not believe, what with Palmistry, Chirography, Phrenology, and the Great Cryptogram, he will survive the retooling period. I honestly think he is the most insufferable snob I have ever met―but all reformed pandhandlers are like that.… in a letter from Kenneth Rexroth to James Laughlin

About this title

About the Author

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. James Laughlin (1914-1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.

From the Back Cover

The letters in this volume capture the many moods of Kenneth Rexroth. They also provide a running commentary on writers outside Rexroth's San Francisco orbit, such notables as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas D. H. Lawrence, and Herbert Read.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393029395
• ISBN 13: 9780393029390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Lee Bartlett