“I have no interest in Kerouac whatsoever. I've done my stint for him. As far as I'm concerned, Kerouac is what Madison Avenue wants a rebel to be. That isn't my kind of rebel.”

—  Kenneth Rexroth

Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)

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