I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

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.