Overview
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).
As we read the long poems together and in sequence we can see that
Rexroth is a philosophical poet of consequence who offers us a
comprehensive system of values based on the realization of the ethical
mysticism of universal responsibility. He is concerned, above all, with
process: the movement from the Dual to the Other. "I have tried,"
Rexroth writes," to embody in verse the belief that the only valid
conservation of value lies in the assumption of unlimited liability, the
supernatural identification of the self with the tragic unity of
creative process. I hope I have made it clear that the self does not do
this by an act of will, by sheer assertion. He who would save his life
must lose it."
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