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Rexroth’s The American Century�

Friday, March 17th, 2006
I’m much fonder than I thought I’d be of Kenneth Rexroth’s poetry, despite, or perhaps because of, Mike’s urgings that I read him. I must have bought his Collected Poems in 1966, since the price at the University Bookstore was $5.25. I’m not sure why I didn’t read the poetry then, but I was [...]

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Rexroth’s Tu Fu

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Although I prefer Chinese poetry that has stronger Taoist or Chan Buddhist elements than those chosen by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese. However, even Confucian poets manage to include taoist or Chan elements in their poetry. Tu Fu is generally regarded as a Confucian poet, but my favorite poem [...]

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Rexroth’s “One Hundred Poems from the Japanese�

Saturday, April 1st, 2006
I was rather surprised, and not pleasantly so, by Rexroth’s selection of poems in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese. This is the first collection of Japanese poems, or Chinese poems for that matter, I’ve ever read that contained so many “love� poems. This poem by “The Mother of the Commander Michitsuna� seems rather typical of [...]

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