{"product_id":"collected-longer-poems-3","title":"Collected Longer Poems","description":"This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. All of the long poems written over the past forty years are included: The Homestead Called Damascus (1920-25), A Prolegomenon to a Theodicy (1925-27), The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940-44), The Dragon and the Unicorn (1944-50) and The Heart's Garden, The Garden's Heart (1967-68).\n As we read the long poems together and in sequence we can see that \nRexroth is a philosophical poet of consequence who offers us a \ncomprehensive system of values based on the realization of the ethical \nmysticism of universal responsibility. He is concerned, above all, with \nprocess: the movement from the Dual to the Other. \"I have tried,\" \nRexroth writes,\" to embody in verse the belief that the only valid \nconservation of value lies in the assumption of unlimited liability, the\n supernatural identification of the self with the tragic unity of \ncreative process. I hope I have made it clear that the self does not do \nthis by an act of will, by sheer assertion. He who would save his life \nmust lose it.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222131757400,"sku":"9780811201773","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/collected-longer-poems-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}