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  • Nights of Love and Laughter

    by Henry Miller ...
    America's Most Unusual Writer…In this fascinating volume, devoted to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual living American writers, you will find many eloquent and moving tales by Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and many other books.Miller's frank and original expression of the most intimate thoughts and feelings of men and women, his ... Read more

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  • 100 Poems from the Japanese

    It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of classic Japanese poetry: the depth of controlled passion, the austere elegance of style, the compressed richness of imagery.The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Women Poets of Japan

    Edited by Ikuko Atsumi, Kenneth Rexroth ...
    From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan.In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • In the Sierra

    Mountain Writings

    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    Nature writings by one of America’s greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras.Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth’s poetry and prose described the way Californians have ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Collected Longer Poems

    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967.This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. All of the long poems written over the past forty years are included: The Homestead Called Damascus (1920-25), A Prolegomenon to a Theodicy (1925-27), The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940-44) ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    The late Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets.He is also one of the most sophisticated. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a controlled and direct language. His intellectual complexity matches Wallace Stevens, his polymath erudition Ezra Pound. He is first among our nature poets. His love poems and erotic lyrics ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese

    Love and the Turning Year

    Translated by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.Love and the Turning Year includes a selection from the Yueh Fu—folk songs from the Six Dynasties Period (fourth-fifth centuries A.D.). Most of the songs are simple, erotic lyrics. Some are attributed to legendary courtesans, while others may have been sung at harvest festivals or marriage ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Collected Shorter Poems

    by Kenneth Rexroth ...
    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.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 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Pierre Reverdy

    by Pierre Reverdy ...
    Translated by John Ashbery, Kenneth Rexroth, Lydia Davis ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind

    Poems from the Chinese

    Edited by Eliot Weinberger ...
    “Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry ReviewMoss covered paths between scarlet peonies,Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.I envy you, drunk with flowers,Butterflies swirling in your dreams.—Ch’ien Ch’iThis exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Written on the Sky

    Poems from the Japanese

    Edited by Eliot Weinberger ...
    “Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York TimesI go out of the darknessOnto a road of darknessLit only by the far offMoon on the edge of the mountains.—Izumi ShikobuOver the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by the great American poet Kenneth ... Read more

    $10.69 USD