distaff
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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distaff stick to hold material to be spun. OE.
distæf, a peculiarly Eng. word; f. the base of MLG.
dise(ne) distaff, bunch of flax (LG.
diesse); the second el. is
STAFF.
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Introduction.(Kenneth Rexroth's poetry)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the twenty-five-year-old Kenneth Rexroth wrote to Louis Zukofsky in early...inspires a kind of fascinated awe, as Rexroth reels off intellectual influences...most remarkable is how accurate Rexroth was in his self-assessment...
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A Life of Kenneth Rexroth. (R (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; Linda Hamalian's A Life of Kenneth. Rexroth - The first full-length biography...biography. One can't always believe Rexroth, especially about himself. Like...perhaps excuses the lie here, and Rexroth could certainly be an entertaining...
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`The Heart's Garden'.(The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth. Edited by Sam Hamill and Bradford Morrow. Copper Canyon. 900 pp. $40. The day that Kenneth Rexroth died was not a dark, cold day. He disappeared in the beginning...
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Kenneth Rexroth and radio reading.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: English Studies in Canada; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...contact with a living audience. Kenneth Rexroth "The New Poetry," 1961 Now...Directions. [um] Also this is Kenneth Rexroth reading his own poetry [laughs] the uh midway in the program. Kenneth Rexroth "Poetry," on KPFA 13 January...
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Eros in agape: Rexroth and the sacrality of sex.(Erich Neumann, Kenneth Rexroth)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...illustrates the crux of Neumann's dictum than Kenneth Rexroth. Others come to mind, of course, but it fits Rexroth with a sterling ring of truth that begs...springs to mind in this context, whereas Rexroth was most famous not as a poet but as an...
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Kenneth Rexroth was 11 years old ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/16/2003; 700+ words
; Kenneth Rexroth was 11 years old when his mother died...to recommend The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, which brings together 60 years of...reprinted from "The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth," edited by Sam Hamill and Bradford...
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Rexroth's San Francisco journalism.(Kenneth Rexroth )
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...a Hearst newspaper) offered Kenneth Rexroth a job writing a weekly column...association was an odd one. Although Rexroth was by that time a well-known...eighty columns is online at the Kenneth Rexroth Archive (www.bopsecrets.org...
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THE "TRIPLE MIRRORS" OF NATURE IN THE POETRY OF KENNETH REXROTH
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...In recent years, the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth has been reexamined in light of...interest lies in the fact that Rexroth's poetry suggests ways of bridging...blending of subject and object. Rexroth achieves this in a way that provides...
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Encountering Kenneth.(Kenneth Rexroth )
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption. --Kenneth Rexroth In 1959, I was hip. On the Road had put me on the...discovered the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth in a slightly bohemian bookstore in Salt Lake City...
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An afternoon with Kenneth.(Kenneth Rexroth)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...collectively unique to Rexroth. But fresh also because...politically correct climate. Kenneth knew his mind and he...sheer present power of Kenneth Rexroth's legacy shined bright...forever. Bless you, Kenneth. Your literary opinions...
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Kenneth Rexroth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kenneth Rexroth 1905-82, American poet, critic, and translator, b. South Bend...Bibliography: See S. Hamill and B. Morrow, ed., The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (2003); biography by L. Hamalian (1991); studies by M. Gibson...
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Rexroth, Kenneth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Rexroth, Kenneth, see performance poetry .
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Howl Obscenity Trial
Book article from: American Decades
...Schorer led off, followed by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Kenneth Rexroth, and six others. Professor Schorer, a highly respected...lines in the poem mean; poet, teacher, and critic Rexroth proclaimed Howl "probably the most remarkable single...
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jazz poetry
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...verse in conjunction with musicians in the late 1930s. The fusion was developed in the 1950s by Kenneth Patchen (1911–72), Kenneth Rexroth (1905–82), Amiri Baraka (adopted name of black militant writer Everett Le Roi...
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Mona Van Duyn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...echoes and sometimes ameliorates the conflicts of our most intimate desires." Other critics were also complimentary. Kenneth Rexroth remarked of her Valentines to the Wide World that it was "… full of verbal and metaphysical wit, a wiry...
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