Authors: Kenneth Rexroth
ISBN-13: 9780811201810, ISBN-10: 0811201813
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: June 1955
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of classic Japanese poetry: the depth of controlled passion, the austere elegance of style, the compressed richness of imagery.