Amador Publishers is proud to issue this new edition of a singular work of scholarship on a singular poet, Kenneth Rexroth. Professor Donald Gutierrez, in presenting Rexroth as a major American poet, brings to bear his own artistic sensibility, his mastery of literary criticism, and his firsthand dealings with a literary lion known to have an ego as large as his intellect, who eschewed academia, championed the working class, chased women, nurtured the Beats, and revered Nature above all.