World Outside the Window: Selected Essays

by Morrow, Bradford; Rexroth, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780811210249
• ISBN10: 0811210243
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-05-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

This book brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called 'an American cultural monument.'

Table of Contents

Books By Kenneth Rexroth	p. ii
Preface	p. vii
The Function of Poetry and the Place of the Poet in Society	p. 1
Poetry, Regeneration, and D. H. Lawrence	p. 8
The Visionary Painting of Morris Graves	p. 26
Simone Weil	p. 35
Disengagement the Art of the Beat Generation	p. 41
San Francisco Letter	p. 57
Rimbaud as Capitalist Adventurer	p. 65
Jazz Poetry	p. 68
Revolt True and False	p. 73
The Hasidism of Martin Buber	p. 77
Sung Culture	p. 102
The Students Take Over	p. 113
Turner and Whistler	p. 127
Gnosticism	p. 132
The Influence of French Poetry on American	p. 143
The Poet as Translator	p. 171
What's Wrong with the Clubs	p. 191
The Institutionalization of Revolt, the Domestication of Dissent	p. 197
Why is American Poetry Culturally Deprived?	p. 209
Community Planning	p. 218
The Heat	p. 222
The Spiritual Alchemy of Thomas Vaughan	p. 243
The Cubist Poetry of Pierre Reverdy	p. 252
Who is Alienated from What?	p. 259
The Influence of Classical Japanese Poetry on Modern American Poetry	p. 267
The Art of Literature	p. 275
Lafcadio Hearn and Buddhism	p. 303
Index	p. 320
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