The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling. The cloth edition was one of the most widely reviewed poetry titles in 2003: “Scholars and critics who endeavor to discuss mid-20th century American poetry responsibly ignore Rexroth at their peril.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review, cover feature and selected as a Book of the Year “Rexroth is probably best known as the 'Father of the Beat Generation.' These poems reveal that great beauty lies beyond that clichéeacute;.”—NPR's All Things Considered “Rexroth's prodigious breadth of learning, his hungry attention to the natural world, his