Word: rexroth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from Fellow Poet Kenneth Rexroth's ardently silly blast at U.S. conformity ("Who killed the bright-headed bird? . . . You killed him in your God damned Brooks Brothers suit") to Fellow Poet John Malcolm Brinnin's vulgarly detailed but more plausible notion (Dylan Thomas in America) that drink and lechery did Dylan in. Caitlin blames...
Ellston Barnes took me by my tweed lapel. "The real writers are coming West," he said. There was Rexroth, and a fellow named Kerouac (who hitch-hikes), and Robinson Jeffers, who roams up and down the beach screaming in the night. Henry Miller's America...