Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth

By Kenneth Rexroth

The past due Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) is unquestionably some of the most readable of this century's nice American poets. he's additionally probably the most subtle. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a managed and direct language. His highbrow complexity suits Wallace Stevens, his polymath erudition Ezra Pound. he's first between our nature poets. His love poems and erotic lyrics are unsurpassed. Rexroth's chosen Poems brings jointly in one quantity a consultant sampling of sixty years' paintings. listed below are giant passages from his longer poems: The dwelling house referred to as Damascus(1920-1925), began whereas the poet used to be in his teenagers; the cubist Prolegomenon to a Theodicy (1925-1927); the philosophical masterpiece The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940-1944) and The Dragon and the Unicorn (1944-1950); and the meditative The Heart's backyard, The Garden's middle (1967). The shorter poems have been initially accumulated in In What Hour (1940), The artwork of Wordly knowledge (1949),The Signature of All issues (1950), In security of the Earth (1956), ordinary Numbers(1964), New Poems (1974), and The Morning celebrity (1979).

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Rammg ... 1926 33 BIMBO'S POME -In the manner of Klee's favourite cat, named Bimbo-- The Master noes what he wonts. he noes whow. But has one vice: not smokeing. But skratches with wip of hoarsehair on the vielin, that herts Bimbo so mutch in his ear. 1932 34 THE CAT - part of the cat: her ear, feeding on spoonfuls of sound, her foot taking a run, the run, her eye, burning inwards, burning through the thick and the thin. Her face that forbids all return: beautiful and a flower but bristling with weapons, and nothing to do with us, in the end.

Where, then, is their god? 1926 32 CAUGHT Caught in a room. Great peril. No exit. But there : a window: open : launch Yourself- I am flying Free But it is raining A drizzle It is raining, a drizzle It is raining rammg rammg .. rammg ... 1926 33 BIMBO'S POME -In the manner of Klee's favourite cat, named Bimbo-- The Master noes what he wonts. he noes whow. But has one vice: not smokeing. But skratches with wip of hoarsehair on the vielin, that herts Bimbo so mutch in his ear. 1932 34 THE CAT - part of the cat: her ear, feeding on spoonfuls of sound, her foot taking a run, the run, her eye, burning inwards, burning through the thick and the thin.

Here you can see him in the dust at your feet, the god of the dogs To see and to know . IS one, IS that who has been torn by me is no god! Where, then, is their god? 1926 32 CAUGHT Caught in a room. Great peril. No exit. But there : a window: open : launch Yourself- I am flying Free But it is raining A drizzle It is raining, a drizzle It is raining rammg rammg .. rammg ... 1926 33 BIMBO'S POME -In the manner of Klee's favourite cat, named Bimbo-- The Master noes what he wonts. he noes whow. But has one vice: not smokeing.

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