REXROTH, Kenneth

I'd like to think Rexroth belongs here, because anyone who is radical in both his literary and social politics serves as an avant-garde model. However, Rexroth's poems at their best were fairly conventional and accessible, usually in appreciation of nature, with scarcely any interest in the possibilities of poetry. I have scoured them, hoping to find avant-garde aberrations comparable to those existing in, say, Cummings and Ogden Nash , but have uncovered one and only one, Fundamental...