| Author Quoted | Kenneth Rexroth | 
		
			| Title Quoted | Natural Numbers: New and Selected Poems | 
		
			| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/12/07 | 
		
			| Imprint | [S.l.] : New Directions. 1963 | 
		
			| Quotation | The new Rexroth is very good too. I certainly like his poems. They are clear and alive. he has a classic touch. I suppose he gets it from his contact with the Chinese. | 
		
			| Quotation Source | Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.; Edited by David D. Cooper. / New York: W.W. Norton. 1997, p. 236 | 
		
			| Letter to | James Laughlin | 
		
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