CONTENTS

Acknowledgments     
     
1   	An Introduction to Kenneth Rexroth (1905-82)     
2	Lives of a Poet
		<i>An Autobiographical Novel:</i> The Midwest (1966: 1905-27)     
		<i>Excerpts from a Life:</i> California (1981: 1927-48)     
		Organic Christian Personalism: California and Europe (1947-67)     
		The Buddha’s Way: Asia (1967-82)    
3   “Poetry Is Vision”-”Vision Is Love”: 
		Rexroth’s Philosophy of Literature     
		“The True Person”     
		Communion: “Communication Raised to the Highest Power”     
		“The Craft Is the Vision and the Vision Is the Craft”     
		The Vicarity of Symbolism     
		The Revolution of the Word: Cubism and Objectivism     
		“Natural Numbers”     
		“Actual Poetry Is the Living Speech of Person to Person”     
		Poetry As Communal Sacrament     
4   The Poems     
<i>The Collected Shorter Poems</i> (1966)     
<i>The Collected Longer Poems</i> (1968) 
<i>New Poems</i> (1974) 
<i>The Silver Swan</i> (1976)
<i>On Flower Wreath Hill</i> (1976)
<i>Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems</i> (1976)
<i>The Love Poems of Marichiko</i> (1978)
<i>The Morning Star</i> (1979
<i>Selected Poems.</i> (1984)
5   The Plays: <i>Beyond the Mountains</i>  (1951)     
6   Translation as an “Act of Sympathy”    
7   Cultural and Countercultural Criticism    
8   Discovering the Anarchist-Buddhist Poet: Rexroth’s Letters to Gibson
9   In and Out of the Academy:
		Knabb, Cornuault, Hamalian, and Gutierrez
		Philosophically Interpretating Rexroth
		The Kenneth Rexroth East-West Collection at 		
			Kanda University of International Studies in Japan

Notes   
Bibliography    
	By Rexroth    
	On Rexroth