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The Relevance of Rexroth
by Ken Knabb
88 pages. 1990. Reprinted in Public Secrets (1997)
[How To Order]
- Chapter 1: Life and Literature
- Brief biography. What he was like in person. His poetry. Opposition to Pound, Eliot and
academia. Remarkable variety and liveliness of his essays. Views on Blake, Baudelaire,
Whitman, Henry Miller, etc.
Chapter 2: Magnanimity and Mysticism - Magnanimity as central theme of his life and works. Mystical experiences. Views on
Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, psychedelics, pseudosciences, D.H. Lawrence, Martin Buber,
etc.
Chapter 3: Society and Revolution - His opposition to Bolshevism. His anarchist perspectives and activities. Views on the
Beats, the sixties counterculture, ecology, underground songs, etc. Ambiguity of his
position as public social critic. Limits of his social analyses and of his notion of
cultural subversion.
Notes and Bibliography
[REXROTH ARCHIVE]
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