
The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World
Kenneth Rexroth
The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World is a collection of essays by Kenneth Rexroth covering topics including: Disengagement and the art of the Beat generation; morals, ethics, religion, ideology, the poet, and poetry; Black writers and their audiences; community planning and urbanism; poetry in 1965 and American poetry's cultural deprivation; poetry and money; the second post-war period and the permanent war generation; alienation; the demagogic process; the sources of literature; poetry into the 1970s; and facing extinction.
- Publisher
- Herder and Herder, Inc.
- Genre
- Topics
- Beat generation and poetryCounterculture and societyLiterary criticism and culture
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1971)
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