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WD_276/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 3 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 31.1 x 21.4 | | Size (mm): | 790 x 544 | | Catalog #: | WD_0276 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
The Influence of French Poetry on American:
Today America has not just been dragged into the orbit of Western Civilization. It, more than any other country except Japan, reflects the inner moral collapse of that civilization. Between Cartier and Champlain thousands of Indians in Northwestern Canada died from the diseases imported by a handful of men in a couple of small boats. The gulf that opened before Pascal, the black bile of Baudelaire, the sacrificium intellectis of Rimbaud, the cacodaemon in the bowels of Artaud, these are commonplaces in America today, as common as measles among the Iroquois. And just as common on both sides of the Atlantic are those highly exportable commodities, the castrated pimps of circumstance in the night of man. The world ill has long since smitten Bolivia and Afghanistan. French poetry and American poetry in the age of Strontium 90 are much alike.
KENNETH REXROTH
1958
-www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/frenchpoetry.htm
Kenneth Rexroth Quotes:
I have no interest in Kerouac whatsoever. I've done my stint for him. As far as I'm concerned, Kerouac is what Madison Avenue wants a rebel to be. That isn't my kind of rebel.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
-www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/
kenneth_rexroth.html
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