SOURCE: "'Poetry Is Vision'—'Vision Is Love': Rexroth's Philosophy of Literature," in Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom, Archon Books, 1986, pp. 32-48.
In the following essay, Gibson examines the evolution of Rexroth's poetic style, literary influences, and conception of personal vision and communal sacrament. According to Gibson, "Rexroth shows that vision is organic consciousness, sympathetic, clear, and steady, communing, communicating, realizing the many in the one, the one in the many, the universality of each being."
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