“The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

"Introduction"
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)

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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

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