Bird in the bush; obvious essays / by Kenneth Rexroth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Contributor:

Salter, Stefan.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions book

A New Directions book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Published by James Laughlin New York Office - 333 Fifth Avenue], [1959.]

Contents:

Unacknowledged legislators and Art pour art

Some thoughts on jazz as music, as revolt, as mystique

Rimbaud as capitalist adventurer

The visionary painting of Morris Graves

The ennobling revulsion

My head gets tooken apart

Samuel Beckett and the importance of waiting

Would you hit a woman with a child, or Who was that lady I seen you with last night?

Kenneth Patchen, naturalist of the public nightmare

The Hasidism of Martin Buber

Was it the Congress of Vienna?

The reality of Henry Miller

Mark Tobey: painter of the humane abstract

Poetry, regeneration and D. H. Lawrence

Turner: painting as an organism of light

The Chinese classic novel in transition

The heroic object and Fernand Léger

The plays of Yeats.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright 1959 by Kenneth Rexroth."

"Design by Stefan Salter."

"These pieces are not criticism but journalism."--Introduction.

"Jacket design by Donn Devita."

Price from dustjacket.

Includes index.

Blue cloth boards lettered in light blue.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

176655