From the introduction
By turns revolutionary and conservative, simultaneously spiritual and worldly, Asian and Western, Kenneth Rexroth created what must surely be regarded as the most original synthesis of transcendent metaphysical and erotic verse ever written by an American poet.... He achieved something almost impossibly simple--a glimpse of sacramental grace within our temporal flesh in a fragile, perishing world.


Book Description
one third of the book devoted to his translations

FROM THE CRITICS

William O'Daly