This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.

Despite the value of his critical prose he dismissed these works as being financially motivated. They remained married until Rexroth's death in 1982. de L.

Rexroth had two daughters Mary (who later changed her name to Mariana) and Katharine by his third wife Marthe Larsen. Kenneth Rexroth (December 22 1905 – June 6 1982) was an American poet translator and critical essayist. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet and disliked the association he was dubbed the "Father of the Beats" by Time.