A Life of Kenneth Rexroth by Linda Hamalian, and: Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters ed. by Lee Bartlett, and: The Relevance of Rexroth by Ken Knabb

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
John Tritica
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Rexroth ◽  
James Laughlin

Kenneth Rexroth:

Hip Sublime ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 184-209
Author(s):  
GIDEON NISBET
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth and Radio Reading

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Brook Houglum
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Rexroth

Denise Levertov

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Greene
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
Kenneth Rexroth ◽  
Four Books ◽  
The Times ◽  
Denise Levertov

Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, ... and the most moving.” Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age twenty-three, but it was not until she married and came to the United States in 1948 that she found her poetic voice, helped by the likes of William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Shortly before her death in 1997, the woman who claimed no country as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. This book examines Levertov's interviews, essays, and self-revelatory poetry to discern the conflict and torment she both endured and created in her attempts to deal with her own psyche, her relationships with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and the times in which she lived. This book is the first complete biography of Levertov, a woman who claimed she did not want a biography, insisting that it was her work that she hoped would endure. And yet she confessed that her poetry in its various forms—lyric, political, natural, and religious—derived from her life experience. Although a substantial body of criticism has established Levertov as a major poet of the later twentieth century, the book represents the first attempt to set her poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.

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