ABSTRACT
Passing through London last week was a founder-member of America's Beat Generation, Mr. Kenneth Rexroth, poet, painter and innovator of the experimental poetry-jazz movement which is currently being imported here into the Third Programme and the Royal Court by our Mr. Christopher Logue and the Tony Kinsey Quintet. But Mr. Rexroth is no downy- cheeked rebel. At fifty-three, he has for thirty years been a fixture on the San Francisco cultural landscape and is one of the elder statesmen of the much-publicised ‘California Renaissance.’ In the early days of the beats he was their Daddy-o. Now there seems to have occurred the classic Freudian schism between father and sons.
