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...area in Utah beloved for its light powder and cheap lift tickets. In his later years, he returned to his youthful dreams of writing poetry. Just before he died, Laughlin was working on Byways, an extended narrative he was writing in a meter he had learned from Kenneth Rexroth, another New Directions poet...
...amateur snapshot and the work of serious photographers. The Snap Shot also offers a wide view of the present state of photographic art. Included are works from established names, such as Robert Frank and Lee Freidlander and from the less well-known but increasingly important photographers such as Nancy Rexroth. Despite important differences in method and sensibility, all strive to snatch meaningful fragments of modern life. Quickly seen and quickly taken, the snapshot is a glimpse of a fast-moving society. It represents a new approach to reality in that it does not separate the main focus of attention from...
...interrelationships. One features the taut confrontation of mother and son on a city street. The kid's whining defiance and his mother's tired implorings cry out from the surface of the page. Only two photographers in the book are not interested in the instantaneousness of the present, Nancy Rexroth and Wehdy Snyder-MacNeil. Rexroth creates images out of the past, out of the distortions of memory. Using a $1.50 camera, her photographs are strangely fuzzy and distorted. However, the early photography--it intensifies rather than diffuses the image's impact. Mysterious, surrealistic and luminescent, her work...
...Little Numb. In addition to Ginsberg (and Kerouac), many of the people Cook interviewed-Kenneth Rexroth, Burroughs, Poets Robert Duncan and Michael McClure-make sensible distinctions between the Beats. In fact, the distinctions are so varied that the term "beat" means anything from tired blood to street existentialism to blissful cosmic consciousness...
Many of the names were celebrated: English Philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, smoking her trademark cigar, Radical Poet Kenneth Rexroth, Expatriate Catholic Theologian Charles Davis, Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie, Protestant Theologian Langdon Gilkey, U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy. As McCarthy said of the assemblage, which included mathematicians and scientists as well as theologians and philosophers: "You would have to spend ten years going around the world to find all these people...