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Exotic Construction of an Ancient Oriental Sappho: On Rexroth’s Creative Translation of Li Ch’ing-Chao’s Ci-Poems and its Influences
In her article \"Exotic Construction of an Ancient Oriental Sappho: On Rexroth's Creative Translation of Li Ch'ing-Chao's Ci-Poems and its Influences,\" Yuqun Fu discusses Li Ch'ing-Chao's Cipoems and her identity as a woman intellect in the patriarchal and feudal Song Dynasty of China. Due to Kenneth Rexroth's feminist perspective and Sappho complex as well as his own pursuit to excel in the hipster stylistics of the newly prospering Beat writers, Rexroth turns to the Eastern women poets to fuel his own cause, especially in his idiosyncratic way of interpreting and translating Li Ch'ing-Chao. His translation focuses on gender identity and displays the manipulation of a mainstream culture to a nonmainstream culture. He misinterprets some frequent images and narrations in Li's poems by singling out some love poems and supplementing some sexual implications and hence shapes the peculiar imagery of a heterogeneous ancient Chinese woman figure with the bold and unveiled expression of her own bodily desires and feminist emancipation with the mysterious veil of ancient Oriental mysticism. His translation of Li has profound influences on his own poetry in terms of themes and writing techniques. In addition, his version of Li has influenced some of his peers and subsequent translators, some Beat writers, and contemporary writers in the U.S.
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The Beats : a graphic history
Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.
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Fresh off the boat and pretty much a literary ignoramus, I had no idea who this Kenneth Rexroth really was, or his cultural significance. City Lights had published the little book as part of its Pocket Poets series.
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Remembering Kenneth Rexroth
The dedication page, given to the three women in his life at that time, has stains of mildew from the book being in old cabins.
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“Those to Whom Interesting Things Happen”: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, and Joanne Kyger, and the Genome of San Francisco Renaissance Poetry
This article examines the “genome” of the influence William Carlos Williams’s poetry has had in terms of its vernacular speech-based aesthetics on the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. The influence of Williams’s work on Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger are examined. This article argues that Williams’s influence becomes a fixture in the evolution of Bay Area poets and poetics after the San Francisco Renaissance and ascendancy of Beat Poetry, through its continuation into the decades of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Encountering Kenneth
He showed me that I had reason to live and reason to write. It's not an exaggeration to say he not only shaped, but also saved my life.
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Rexroth's Chicago, Chicago's Rexroth: Wobblies, Dil Picklers, and Windy City Dada
Poet, playwright, journalist, translator, teacher, critic, and lifelong radical, Kenneth Rexroth is probably best known to the broad public as a leading avant-courier of the 1950s San Francisco literary renaissance and, by extension, as a father of that decades most notorious cultural phenomenon: the Beat Generation. Rexroth spent his teenage years and young manhood as a participant and observer in the city's then-burgeoning multiracial hobohemia: the free-for-all world of social radicalism, sexual freedom, jazz, Charles H. Kerr s socialist publishing co-op, the Industrial Workers of the World (iww, known as Wobblies from about 1913 on), Bughouse Square, the DiI Pickle, the Garvey movement, the African Blood Brotherhood, the Proletarian Party, Turner Hall, the Radical Bookshop, and even a little-known effort to spark a specifically Chicago variant of the international creative/destructive rebellion known as Dada.
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