Name: Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen von Kenneth Patchen
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Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen Zusammenfassung

Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen

From the appearance in 1936 of Kenneth Patchen's first book, the voice of this great poet has been protesting war and social injustice, satirizing the demeaning and barbarous inanities of our culture-entrancing us with an inexhaustible flow of humor and fantasy. With directness and simplicity, he has restored the exaltation of romantic love to its ancient bardic place beside an awareness of God's living presence among all men.

For this collection, assembled in his fifty-fourth year, Kenneth Patchen has drawn from the contents of twelve of his books. It provides the reader in many cases with the texts of poems no longer available even in rare editions.

Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen Bewertungen

To experience Patchen's work is to discover a peculiar sort of divinity. -- Devendra Banhart
Patchen is a writer of superb daring and invention, the author of a few passages which are comparable to the most intuitively beautiful writing ever done. -- James Dickey
Kenneth Patchen is one of the very few people over thirty who can and should be believed. The contemporary forces of assault should know that his voice was raised, and his sword was bright at the walls of darkness when almost all other American poets were still and tamed. -- Kenneth Rexroth
In these fierce and hurrying years, Patchen's apocalyptic prophecies have come and are coming all too true. Listen if there is still time, to the words of this man! 'Peace or Perish: Mercy Truth Freedom Peace Peace Peace Peace Love Kindness Trust or All Men Are Doomed.' -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There is more verve and more variety in Patchen's work than in any other living American poet's entire output. No more ringing protests and no more passionate love poems have been written in our time. This book should win the acclaim that he so well merits and it should establish him not only as a remarkable poet but also a great one. -- Louis Untermeyer
Patchen is the only major poet-and prose writer if it comes to that-who is still to be plumbed, explored, or really understood. Rich the prospect for him, and for us! -- Peter Yates

Über Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was one of the most prolific American poets of his time. He was born in Niles, Ohio. He attended school at the University of Madison-Wisconsin where he met his wife, Miriam Oikemus. They moved to Greenwich Village and befriended many writers including E.E. Cummings, Anais Nin, and Henry Miller. An accident occurred after his first publication that would eventually leave him an invalid. He and his wife later moved to San Francisco during the early years of the Beat Movement. Many Beat poets would cite Patchen as a major influence. His experimental protests in poetry, painting, and prose remain unprecedented. Aside from his many books of poetry, his acclaimed novels, and his concrete visual works, Kenneth Patchen also collaborated with John Cage for the radio-play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, and worked with Charles Mingus developing jazz poetry. Patchen was an unwavering pacifist and many of his works have a political bent. Patchen was the first recipient of an NEA Literary Grant in 1967.

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Sku

GOR009640805

ISBN 13

9780811201407

ISBN 10

0811201406

Titel

Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen

Autor

Kenneth Patchen

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Datum

19680201

Anzahl der Seiten

516

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N/A

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