A caustic but erudite commentator on art and politics for more than half a century, Kenneth Rexroth published nineteen volumes of poetry, a collection of verse plays (produced by the Living Theater during its opening season), thirteen volumes of...

As American as Mark Twain yet more international than Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, for nearly half a century, was a cultural force as an intrepid artist and poet, an adept editor and translator, an outspoken critic and cultural personality. His...

When Kenneth Rexroth settled in San Francisco in 1927, West Coast writers had already proudly embraced the special experience and beauty of things Western in their decisively American style. In opposition to the dominant cultural values of the East,...

In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair described Kenneth Rexroth's place in modern poetry: "Like William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth is one of the veterans of American modernist poetry and, like...

Kenneth Rexroth, poet, critic, and playwright, was a respected mentor of many of the Beats, yet his own literary career reached back three decades before the Beats and continued into recent times in directions rather different from much Beat writing....