Kennethus Rexroth (22 Decembris 1905—6 Iunii 1982) fuit poeta, interpres, et iudex litterarius Americanus, persona necessarius in Renascentia Franciscopolis habitus, qui fundamenta illius motus poetici iecit.^[1] Quamquam se poetam prostratum non habuit, et consociationem etiam aversatus est, pater prostratorum a Time Magazine appellatus est. Fuit inter primos poetas in Civitatibus Foederatis qui poeticas a maioribus traditas formas Iaponienses, sicut haicu, exploravit.^[2]

Stilus

Multa ex operibus Rexrothianis digeri possunt erotica vel poesis amatoria quia amor transcendens eum fascinavit. Secundum Hamill et Kleiner, "nusquam est versus Rexrothianus plenius verus factus quam in eius poesi erotica."^[3] Sua poemata per prudentiam conscientiae formarum Asianarum et aestimationem poesis lyricae Graecae, praecipue poesis Sapphus. Eius vox poetica similis est poesis Du Fu (quem convertit), indignationem iniquitatum mundi ex superiori loco exsistentialistico imprimens.

Opera

Auctor

• In What Hour? (1940). Novi Eboraci: The Macmillan Company
• The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1944). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1949). Prairie City Illinoesiae: Decker Press
• The Signature of All Things (1949). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Beyond the Mountains: Four Plays in Verse (1951). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• The Dragon and the Unicorn (1952). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Memorial for Dylan Thomas (1955). Mill Valley: Goad Press
• In Defense of the Earth (1956). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Bird in the Bush: Obvious Essays (1959) Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Assays (1961) Novi Eboraci: New Directions (essays)
• Natural Numbers: New and Selected Poems (1963). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Classics Revisited (1964; 1986). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems (1991)
• Collected Shorter Poems (1966). Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• An Autobiographical Novel (1966). Novi Eboraci: Doubleday
• Heart's Garden, The Garden's Heart (1967). Cantabrigiae: Pym-Randall Press
• Collected Longer Poems (1968). Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World (1970). Herder & Herder.
• With Eye and Ear (1970) Herder & Herder.
• American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971). Novi Eboraci: Herder & Herder (essay).
• Sky, Sea, Birds, Trees, Earth, House, Beasts, Flowers (1971). Barbaropoli: Unicorn Press
• The Elastic Retort: Essays in Literature and Ideas (1973). Seabury.
• Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (1974). Seabury.
• New Poems (1974). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• The Silver Swan (1976). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press
• On Flower Wreath Hill (1976). Burnaby Columbiae Britannicae: Blackfish Press
• The Love Poems of Marichiko (1978). Barbaropoli: Christopher's Books
• The Morning Star (1979) Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Saucy Limericks & Christmas Cheer (1980). Barbaropoli: Bradford Morrow
• Between Two Wars: Selected Poems Written Before World War II (1982). Labyrinth Editions & The Iris Press
• Selected Poems (1984). New York: New Directions
• World Outside the Window: Selected Essays (1987). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• More Classics Revisited (1989). Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• An Autobiographical Novel (1964; expanded edition, 1991). Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Kenneth Rexroth & James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1991). Novi Eboraci: Norton.
• Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems (1991). Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems (1997). Copper Canyon Press.
• Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion (1999). Glad Day.
• Complete Poems (2003). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press.
• In the Sierra: Mountain Writings (2012). Novi Eboraci: New Directions (poesis et prosa).

Interpres

Ordo chronologicus.

• Fourteen Poems by O. V. de L.-Milosz. (1952), Franciscopoli: Peregrine Press. Conversus a Kennetho Rexroth, cum illustrationibus ab Eduardo Hagedorn factis. Ed. 2a. Port Townsend Vsaingtoniae: Copper Canyon Press, (1983).
• 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile (1956), Franciscopoli: City Lights Bookstore.
• One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• One Hundred Poems From the Chinese (1956), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• Poems from the Greek Anthology. (1962), Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Paperbacks: The University of Michigan Press.
• Pierre Reverdy: Selected Poems (1969), Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Love and the Turning Year|Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese (1970), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• 100 Poems from the French (1972), Pym-Randall.
• Orchid Boat (1972), Seabury Press. with Ling Chung; reimpressus Women Poets of China, Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• 100 More Poems from the Japanese (1976), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• The Burning Heart (1977), Seabury Press. with Ikuko Atsumi; reprinted as Women Poets of Japan, Novi Eboraci: New Directions
• Seasons of Sacred Lust: Selected Poems of Kazuko Shiraishi. (1978), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.
• Complete Poems of Li Ch’ing-Chao. (1979), Novi Eboraci: New Directions.

Discographia

• Poetry Readings in the Cellar (with the Cellar Jazz Quintet): Kenneth Rexroth & Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1957) Fantasy #7002 LP (Spoken Word)
• Rexroth: Poetry and Jazz at the Blackhawk (1958) Fantasy #7008 LP (Spoken Word)

Notae

Bibliographia

• Charters, Ann, ed. 1992. The Portable Beat Reader. Novi Eboraci: Penguin Books. ISBN 0670838853, ISBN 0140151028.
• Hamalian, Linda. 1991. A Life of Kenneth Rexroth. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. ISBN 0393309150.
• Hartzell, James, et Richard Zumwinkle. 1967. Kenneth Rexroth: A Checklist of His Published Writings. Angelopoli: Friends of the UCLA Library.
• Perron, Lee. 2009. Kenneth Rexroth: A Bibliographic Checklist. Bennett Valley Californiae: Sun Moon Bear Editions.
• Suiter, John. 2002. Poets on the Peaks. Counterpoint. ISBN 1582431485; ISBN 1582432945.
• Weinberger, Eliot. 1986. Works of Paper, 1980-1986. New Directions. ISBN 0811210006.

Nexus externi

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Kennethus Rexroth spectant.

• Blog de Rexroth, bonestamp.com
• Kenneth Rexroth, recollectionbooks.com (Anarchist Encyclopedia)
• Opera ab / de Kennethus Rexroth in bibliothecis (in catalogo WorldCat)