Kenneth Rexroth (December 221905 - June 61982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku. He is regarded as a chief figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. Rexroth had two daughters, Mary (who later changed her name to Mariana) and Katharine, by his third wife, Marthe Larsen. Wikipedia
Selections from Kenneth Rexroth's autobiography can be found online at Ken Knabb's "Rexroth Archive". recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
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This section of the BPS website is devoted to writings by and about the great poet, essayist, social critic and Renaissance man, Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982). www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/
In 1948, he separated from Marie Kass without getting a divorce. He moved to Europe and, in 1949, married Marthe Larsen in a civil ceremony in France. They had two children while in Europe and returned to the USA in 1955. Rexroth and Kass were officially www.imdb.com/name/nm0721023/
