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One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
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Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
Now in its 23rd printing Rexroth's famous anthology of classic Japanese poems. The sound of the Japanese texts is reproduced in Romji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. With a translator's introduction, notes on the individual poets and an extensive bibliography.
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
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Now in its 21st printing. Thirty-five poems by the great Tu Fu (T'ang Dynasty, 713-770) make up the first part of this volume -- with the remainder devoted to classic poets of the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) including: Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu His, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'ing Chao and Chu Shu Chen. With a translator ...
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An autobiographical novel
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Kenneth Rexroth
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Classics revisited.
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Kenneth Rexroth
The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisited discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, 'basic documents in the history of the imagination.' Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each about five pages long) first appeared in the Saturday Review.
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The Holy Kabbalah: A Mystical Interpretation of the Scriptures
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Arthur Edward Waite, ed, Kenneth Rexroth (From an idea by)
Considered by some as Hebrew witchcraft, the Kabbalah is the "occult" and "secret" tradition of Judaism, with origins far in the distant past. Here 19th-century scholar and researcher Arthur Edward Waite takes a penetrating yet sensible look at this world of mystery.
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The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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Kenneth Rexroth
This volume assembles Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to 1966, bringing together work from seven earlier books and a group of previously unpublished poems.
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The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
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Eliot Weinberger (Editor), William Carlos Williams (Translator), Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
A groundbreaking anthology of classical Chinese translations by giants of Modern American poetry. A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Weinberger begins with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and ...
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The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill (Editor), Bradford Morrow (Editor)
Kenneth Rexroth is a poet of enormous achievement. "The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth" assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems ...
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Collected Longer Poems
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Kenneth Rexroth
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One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese
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Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1955) proved such an extremely popular book that he put together a sequel. The poems are representative of a large range of classical, medieval, and modern poetry, but the emphasis, as in him companion Chinese collections (1955 and 1970), is on folk songs and love lyrics.
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World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth
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Bradford Morrow (Editor), Kenneth Rexroth
This book talks about Kenneth's twenty-seven essays written over a period of time of more than forty years. It remains the sanest guide to the cultural upheaval in American society since World War II.
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Selected Poems
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Kenneth Rexroth
Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years work. The late Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most sophisticated.
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Poems from the Greek Anthology
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Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
Includes poems by Sappho, Anyte, Glykon, Antipatros, Leonidas, Asklepiades, and Ammianos.
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100 More Poems from Chinese
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Kenneth Rexroth
This is a collection of translations from Chinese done down the years solely to please myself. It is offered with no pretense to scholarship or to mastery of that complex subject, Sinology.
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Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
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Lee Bartlett, Kenneth Rexroth
The letters in this volume capture the many moods of Kenneth Rexroth. They also provide a running commentary on writers outside Rexroth's San Francisco orbit, such notables as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas D. H. Lawrence, and Herbert Read.
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Women Poets of China: Orchid Boat.
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Kenneth Rexroth, Ling Chung (Photographer)
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More Classics Revisited
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Kenneth Rexroth
Rexroth, More Classics Revisited. the second volume of Rexroth's Classics essays.
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Nights of love and laughter
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Henry Miller
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Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese
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Kenneth Rexroth
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Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill (Introduction by), Elaine Laura Kleiner (Introduction by)
Poet, essayist, translator, Kenneth Rexroth was arguably the most influential poet west of the Mississippi. From his encouragement of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation, to his own translations of Japanese and Chinese poetry, he almost single-handedly redefined the way in which American poetry was written, taught, ...
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Love Poems from the Japanese
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Sam Hamill (Editor), Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--including the imperial collections of the "Manyoshu" and "Kokinshu--"the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japanese tradition. The poems range in tone from the spiritual longing of an isolated monk to the erotic ecstasy of a court princess--but share the ...
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American Poetry in the Twentieth Century
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Kenneth Rexroth
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Women Poets of Japan
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Kenneth Rexroth (Translator), Ikuko Atsumi (Photographer)
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Seasons of Sacred Lust
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Kazuko Shiraishi, Kenneth Rexroth (Editor)
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in ...
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The Burning Heart: Women Poets of Japan
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