A report on Kenneth Rexroth
American poet, translator, and critical essayist.
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Beat Generation
7 linksLiterary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Kenneth Rexroth's apartment became a Friday night literary salon (Ginsberg's mentor William Carlos Williams, an old friend of Rexroth, had given him an introductory letter).
Allen Ginsberg
8 linksAmerican poet and writer.
American poet and writer.
Ginsberg's mentor William Carlos Williams wrote an introductory letter to San Francisco Renaissance figurehead Kenneth Rexroth, who then introduced Ginsberg into the San Francisco poetry scene.
San Francisco Renaissance
3 linksUsed as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde in the 1950s.
Used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde in the 1950s.
Kenneth Rexroth—poet, translator, critic, and author—is the founding father of the renaissance.
Howl (poem)
5 linksPoem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems.
Poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems.
Ginsberg showed this poem to Kenneth Rexroth, who criticized it as too stilted and academic; Rexroth encouraged Ginsberg to free his voice and write from his heart.
Six Gallery reading
6 linksImportant poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
Important poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
They were introduced by Kenneth Rexroth, a San Francisco poet of an older generation, who was a kind of literary father-figure for the younger poets and had helped to establish their burgeoning community through personal introductions at his weekly salon.
Gary Snyder
5 linksAmerican man of letters.
American man of letters.
Snyder met Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of Kenneth Rexroth.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4 linksAmerican poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Soon after settling in San Francisco in 1951, Ferlinghetti met the poet Kenneth Rexroth, whose concepts of philosophical anarchism influenced his political development.
City Lights Bookstore
4 linksIndependent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
This was followed in quick succession by Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen, but it was the impact of the fourth volume, Howl and Other Poems (1956) by Allen Ginsberg that brought national attention to the author and publisher.
The Dharma Bums
4 links1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
At the event, other authors including Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen also performed."Anyway I followed the whole gang of howling poets to the reading at Gallery Six that night, which was, among other important things, the night of the birth of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. Everyone was there. It was a mad night. And I was the one who got things jumping by going around collecting dimes and quarters from the rather stiff audience standing around in the gallery and coming back with three huge gallon jugs of California Burgundy and getting them all piffed so that by eleven o'clock when Alvah Goldbook was reading his poem 'Wail' drunk with arms outspread everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session) and old Rheinhold Cacoethes the father of the Frisco poetry scene was wiping his tears in gladness."
Objectivism (poetry)
0 linksThe Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s.
The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s.
In addition to poems by Rakosi, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, George Oppen, Basil Bunting and William Carlos Williams, Zukofsky included work by a number of poets who would have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks, Robert McAlmon, Joyce Hopkins, Norman Macleod, Kenneth Rexroth, S. Theodore Hecht, Harry Roskolenkier, Henry Zolinsky, Whittaker Chambers, Jesse Lowenthal, Emanuel Carnevali (as translator of Arthur Rimbaud), John Wheelwright, Richard Johns and Martha Champion.