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...poet who goes in for grimmer kicks than limericks is the hero of another Music story-The Cool, Cool Bards. Kenneth Rexroth has started an unshaven love affair between verse and jazz, and it is proliferating like a weird crop of mushrooms throughout San Francisco jazz joints. Mushiest of the mushrooms is a poem entitled Thou Shalt Not Kill, a lengthy dirge for hordes of long-lost poets who somehow strayed from their vocation. In it, among other things, Rexroth asks dolefully: "How many stopped writing at 30? How many went to work for TIME?" By latest count there...
...Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with the man who started the poetry-and-jazz trend, Poet Kenneth Rexroth. decked out in red shirt, olive green corduroy suit and black string tie. "Lord! Lord! Lord!" cried Rexroth happily. "Look how it packs them...
...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...
...year's first Morris Gray Poetry Reading will take place at 4:30 p. m. this afternoon, when Kenneth Rexroth reads from his poems in the Widener Library poetry room. The Gray Fund was set up in 1929 by Morris Gray '77 to provide funds for talks on modern poetry...