Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. [Edited by Lee Bartlett]

Kenneth REXROTH & James LAUGHLIN ; Lee Bartlett (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0393029395 / ISBN 13: 9780393029390

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

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pp.xxvii, 292 pages, a Fine hardback in a fine dustwrapper (price-clipped) [0393029395].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. [Edited by Lee Bartlett]
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393029395
• ISBN 13: 9780393029390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Correspondence between author Rexroth, a "presiding figure of the San Francisco Renaissance," and publisher Laughlin, spanning forty years. Introduction, notes on the text, select bibliography, index. Errata sheet laid in.

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.