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Collected Longer Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

✍ Scribed by Rexroth, Kenneth; Hinton, David

Book ID: 109583486
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 433 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780811222570

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✦ Synopsis

This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967.This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. All of the long poems written over the past forty years are included: The Homestead Called Damascus (1920-25), A Prolegomenon to a Theodicy (1925-27), The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940-44), The Dragon and the Unicorn (1944-50) and The Heart's Garden, The Garden's Heart (1967-68). As we read the long poems together and in sequence we can see that Rexroth is a philosophical poet of consequence who offers us a comprehensive system of values based on the realization of the ethical mysticism of universal responsibility. He is concerned, above all, with process: the movement from the Dual to the Other. "I have tried," Rexroth writes," to embody in verse the belief that the only valid conservation of value lies in the assumption of unlimited liability, the supernatural...

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