Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
Autore di One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Sull'Autore
Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, and worked at a wide variety of jobs, being largely self-educated. In the late 1950s, he won a number of awards, including an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award. mostra altro He translated widely, mainly from the Japanese, and wrote a lively account of his life, An Autobiographical Novel. His work influenced many younger poets, such as Snyder, and continued in part the traditions of imagism and objectivism. A critic as well as a poet, his collections of essays include American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971) and Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (1975). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Kenneth Rexroth
Penguin Modern Poets 9: Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967) — Autore — 63 copie
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese (New Directions Paperbook) (2009) — Traduttore — 29 copie
Poetry Readings in the Cellar 4 copie
Perspectives USA Volume 10 2 copie
Gödel's Proof 1 copia
Revisitar os Clássicos 1 copia
Rexroth's Greatest Interview 1 copia
Penguin Modern Poets # 9 1 copia
Excerpts from a Life 1 copia
Rictus 1 copia
Thou Shalt Not Kill 1 copia
Essays 1 copia
Opere correlate
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Traduttore — 731 copie
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Collaboratore — 407 copie
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Foot #2 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Kronstadt Revolt: The Flower of the Revolution Crushed by the Bolsheviks (2021) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
San Francisco poets [sound recording] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Nome legale
- Rexroth, Kenneth Charles Marion
- Altri nomi
- Marichiko
- Data di nascita
- 1905-12-22
- Data di morte
- 1982-06-06
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Santa Barbara Cemetery Association, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Istruzione
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Attività lavorative
- poet
translator
essayist
postulant
teacher - Relazioni
- Laughlin, James (friend)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Shelley Memorial Award (1957/1958)
Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1958-1959)
Copernicus Award (1975)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1969)
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I'm not sure how 'good' the translations are, but the resulting poems are very fine.
To be clear, this was an excellent and worthwhile project. I would love to know more about female, Chinese poets. I guess now I know a bit more, but it isn't much.
Perhaps the problem is in the selection? Rexroth and Ling seem to have chosen sexy poems, or heart-rending poems, or 'revolutionary' poems, three types of poem that I'm particularly uninterested in. That said, even I can recognize that some of the pieces here are excellent, once put in context. Ts'ai Yen's poems describing life as an exile in Mongolia, the pleasure of returning to China and the pain of having to leave her sons behind moved even my stone heart. Yu Hsuan-Chi's poem about the wish for knowledge and the knowledge of being excluded is very well done:
On a visit to ch'ung chen taoist temple I see in the south hall the list of successful candidates in the imperial examinations
Cloud capped peaks fill the eyes
In the Spring sunshine.
Their names are written in beautiful characters
And posted in order of merit.
How I hate this silk dress
That conceals a poet.
I life my head and read their names
In powerless envy.
And if anyone can find anything else anywhere by or about 'Wu Tsao' (= Wu Zao), let me know.
Is it the translations? They're pretty lifeless, even when they're good; just prose in short lines. Presumably these poets deserve better. Is it cold historical facts? Poetry takes a lot of education, then access to publishing institutions, then promotion, then acceptance by critics, then acceptance by later critics, and so on. Perhaps Chinese poetry just shut women out, and this is really the best available? The revolution doesn't seem to have helped, if the twentieth century writers here are any example.
I'm guessing there are lots of problems with this anthology, and these are just a few of them. In the unlikely event that someone with pull is reading this, how about a better book with the same mission?… (altro)
Perhaps the problem is in the selection? Rexroth and Ling seem to have chosen sexy poems, or heart-rending poems, or 'revolutionary' poems, three types of poem that I'm particularly uninterested in. That said, even I can recognize that some of the pieces here are excellent, once put in context. Ts'ai Yen's poems describing life as an exile in Mongolia, the pleasure of returning to China and the pain of having to leave her sons behind moved even my stone heart. Yu Hsuan-Chi's poem about the wish for knowledge and the knowledge of being excluded is very well done:
On a visit to ch'ung chen taoist temple I see in the south hall the list of successful candidates in the imperial examinations
Cloud capped peaks fill the eyes
In the Spring sunshine.
Their names are written in beautiful characters
And posted in order of merit.
How I hate this silk dress
That conceals a poet.
I life my head and read their names
In powerless envy.
And if anyone can find anything else anywhere by or about 'Wu Tsao' (= Wu Zao), let me know.
Is it the translations? They're pretty lifeless, even when they're good; just prose in short lines. Presumably these poets deserve better. Is it cold historical facts? Poetry takes a lot of education, then access to publishing institutions, then promotion, then acceptance by critics, then acceptance by later critics, and so on. Perhaps Chinese poetry just shut women out, and this is really the best available? The revolution doesn't seem to have helped, if the twentieth century writers here are any example.
I'm guessing there are lots of problems with this anthology, and these are just a few of them. In the unlikely event that someone with pull is reading this, how about a better book with the same mission?… (altro)
reads kind of uneven, owing to a big contrast in coverage between the early poets and the 20th century ones, and there's sadly a dropoff in quality too. but the early poets (most of the book), who go back as far as 300BC and are all given detailed biographies as much as it's possible, are uniformily exquisite, and this is an important volume.
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 93
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 17
Also, many thanks to the other reviewers who took the time to show the original poems in Chinese with literal translations