Women Poets of Japan: Burning Heart »

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.

From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan.