Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen (Hardcover, New)

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. Letters. Edited by Allen Frost, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE includes photographs and brief biographies of Patchen's correspondents. They include Harvey Breit, Alex Comfort, E.E. Cummings, Robert Duncan, James T. Farrell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Laughlin, James Boyer May, Alexander Meiklejohn, Henry Miller, Henry Moe, Harriet Monroe, Lewis Mumford, Alan Neil, Miriam Patchen, Henry Rago, Kenneth Rexroth, Harry Roskolenko, Isabel Smith-Stein, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Leon Trotsky, Louis Untermeyer, Amos Wilder, Thomas Wolfe, and Jasper Wood."When reading Kenneth Patchen, a face stares back out of the text. His very human gaze scrutinizes us and our world with such intensity because he is looking for all the beauty despite such apparent ugliness. The SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE reveals the hardships and pain Patchen endured in this search, bolstered by his muse Miriam. Reading Patchen is a profound literary experience, an absolute delighting in humanity's possibilities yet also a despondence, sometimes even anger, over our shortcomings. These themes play themselves out here in Patchen's impassioned letters to such friends and colleagues as Henry Miller, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, et. al. To read this correspondence is to be astonished by Patchen's insatiable quest for all that is good in life, one that led him from proletarianism to concretism to jazz to painted poems. Embrace hope, all ye who enter here."--Eckhard Gerdes

General

Imprint:	Bottom Dog Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	April 2012
Contributors:	Kenneth Patchen
Editors:	Allen Frost
Contributors:	E.E. Cummings • Henry Miller • Dylan Thomas • Rexroth Kenneth • James Laughlin • Miriam Patchen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Volumes:	336
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-933964-55-3
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LSN:	1-933964-55-3
Barcode:	9781933964553

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