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Kenneth White

Born

in The Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland

April 28, 1936

Died

August 11, 2023

Genre

Poetry, Philosophy

Influences

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dugald Semple, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry David T ...more

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Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He spent his formative years in Fairlie in Ayrshire.

White obtained a double first in French and German from the University of Glasgow. From 1959 until 1963, he studied at the University of Paris, where he obtained a state doctorate. He purchased Gourgounel, an old farm in the Ardèche region of France, where he could spend the summers and autumns studying and working on what would become Letters from Gourgounel.

In 1963, White returned to the University of Glasgow, where he lectured in French literature until 1967. Then, disillusioned by the contemporary British literary and poetry scene, he resigned from the University and moved to the city of Pau, near the Pyrenees, in south-west Franc ...more

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	The Blue Road 3.74 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems 1964-1988 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open World: The Collected Poems 1960 - 2000 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Cygnes Sauvages: Voyage Haïku by Kenneth White, Marie-Claude White 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project (Non-fiction) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across the Territories: Travels from Orkney to Rangiroa 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilgrim of the Void: Travels in South-East Asia and the North Pacific 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gvidova mapa: Jedno evropsko hodočašće by Kenneth White, Aleksandar V. Stefanović (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres de Gourgounel 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Maison des marées 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“trying to translate
into a language that's known
a poem writ
in the language of stone”
― Kenneth White, Open World: The Collected Poems 1960 - 2000

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“The other day, in the course of one of those more or less clandestine visits to the city on the Clyde I make from time to time, I was walking down Buchanan Street when I came smack up against something I'd never seen before: that sculpture of a big bird struggling into flight called Concept of Kentigern. Maybe Glasgow is about ready to leave its status as industrial mastadon of the Western world and fly over into other dimensions. Maybe there's a good time coming.”
― Kenneth White, Cencrastus No. 12: Spring 1983

tags: glasgow

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“This is the summit of contemplation, and
no art can touch it
Blue, so blue, the far-out archipelago
and the sea shimmering, shimmering
No art can touch it, the mind can only
try to become attuned to it
To become quiet, and space itself out, to
become open and still, unworlded
Knowing itself in the diamond country, in
the ultimate unlettered light.

A High Blue Day on Scalpay”
― Kenneth White

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