Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (22 Desember 1905 – 6 Juni 1982[1]) adalah seorang penyair, penerjemah, dan penulis esai kritis Amerika Serikat. Dia dianggap sebagai tokoh penting dalam Renaisans San Francisco, dan membuka dasar bagi gerakan tersebut.[2] Meskipun ia tidak menganggap dirinya sebagai penyair Beat, dan tidak menyukai dikaitkan, ia dijuluki "Bapak Beats" oleh majalah Time.[3] Sebagian besar belajar sendiri, Rexroth belajar beberapa bahasa dan menerjemahkan puisi dari bahasa Tionghoa, Perancis, Spanyol, dan Jepang.[4]
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- Kenneth Rexroth Archive, a collection of works by and about Rexroth, part of Ken Knabb's Bureau of Public Secrets site.
- In fall 2006, the literary journal Chicago Review Diarsipkan January 8, 2007, di Wayback Machine. published a special issue on Rexroth that includes a large collection of his correspondence, an interview conducted by Bradford Morrow, and several essays and poems in his honor.
- Introduction to Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth Diarsipkan December 16, 2004, di Wayback Machine.
- A biography of Kenneth Rexroth - focussing on his anarchist and working class politics
- Kenneth Rexroth Film: The Signature of All Things - Los Angeles poets read Rexroth to celebrate his 100th birthday.
- Kenneth Rexroth, from the Anarchist Encyclopedia
- Communalism, Seabury 1972, e-text
- Liinois' Modern American Poetry, Kenneth Rexroth page. Diarsipkan May 21, 2019, di Wayback Machine.
- Rexroth blog.
- Interview with Sam Hamill, editor of The Collected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth.
- A Life of Kenneth Rexroth - R book reviews[1]; Fall, 1993; Review of Linda Hamalian, A life of Kenneth Rexroth, by Donald Gutierrez (Literary Review).
- On Rexroth's Poetry Diarsipkan April 30, 2006, di Wayback Machine.; 1999; Donald K. Gutierrez essay, from Kenneth Rexroth's Modern American Poetry page; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- (Inggris) Kenneth Rexroth di Find a Grave
- Kenneth Rexroth multimedia directory - @ Keroauc Alley
- Rexroth essay on American Indian Songs
- Tribute on 100th birthday
