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Article: Editor's note.(Chicago Review celebrations)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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To get lost in a book is a good thing; to get lost in a magazine never is. With this in mind, we present a brief guide to four features in this 400-page, sixtieth-anniversary issue of Chicago Review.
"Born in another country, Rexroth would have served as the intellectual conscience of the nation." Eliot Weinberger made this claim following Kenneth Rexroth's death in 1982. Our main feature, which marks Rexroth's centenary, aims to justify it.
The feature opens with eighty pages of previously unpublished letters. Here, beneath Rexroth's assured and sometimes arrogant tone, we follow a mind engaged with the most important literary and political events of ...