| World Outside the Window: Selected Essays Contributor(s): Morrow, Bradford (Author), Rexroth, Kenneth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811210243 ISBN-13: 9780811210249 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1987 Annotation: This book brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called 'an American cultural monument.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Non-classifiable |
| Dewey: 814.52 |
| LCCN: 86028610 |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.66" W x 8.36" (1.09 lbs) 326 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Morrow, Bradford: - Bradford Morrow's novels include The Diviner's Tale, Giovanni's Gift, and Trinity Fields, and co-edited with David Shields The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death. The recipient of numerous awards, he founded and edits the literary journal Conjunctions and is a professor of literature at Bard College. He lives in New York City.Rexroth, Kenneth: - Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku. |