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Beyond the mountains

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Description: ""Phaedra" and "Iphigenia at Aulis," set in the Greek heroic age, are recastings of old familiar myths, while "Hermaios" and "Berenike" (collectively called "Beyond the Mountains") take place at the start of the Christian era, in Hellenized Bactria, in the foothills of the present-day Hindu Kush. In substance, the plays are Rexroth's personal interperation of the elemental values of Greek civilization ..."--Publisher description
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1974.
Call number: 660947
Creator: Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0811205525; 9780811205528

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In the Sierra : mountain writings

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"Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from [Kenneth Rexroth's] memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and correspondence."

660953

Battle of Lookout Mountain

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Image of Union and Confederate armies engaged in foothills at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in 1863 during the American Civil War; Confederate soldiers in trenches at left fire on Union troops scaling the rocky terrain; dead and wounded soldiers in foreground.

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The mountain is young

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Love story of an Englishwoman and a Hindu who meet in a romantic valley in Nepal.

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American poetry in the twentieth century

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One of America's leading poets and critics offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder. It is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process Kenneth Rexroth provides a controversial new look at the standard authors and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Lowell. This new paperback edition has been supplemented by a complete index of poets and a list of suggested readings. --back cover.

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The collected shorter poems

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This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books. Among the American poets of the generation that came to prominence in the Forties, Kenneth Rexroth has been notable both for the independence of his personal voice and for his accessibility to the tradition of international avant-garde literature. He began writing and publishing in magazines at fifteen. His earliest work was personal and concrete, much like that of the Imagists. In his twenties he wrote in the disassociative style--sometimes called "literary cubism "--developed by Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Reverdy. This was not free association, but the conscious disassociation and recombination of the elements of the poem to achieve the highest possible level of significance. With his later books Rexroth moved back to a direct and classically simple form of personal statement. In this period he wrote the great nature poems, the love poems, and the contemplative lyrics that have established his reputation as one of the most important American poets.

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