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Kenneth Patchen - Rebel Poet in America (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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Kenneth Patchen - Rebel Poet in America (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Revised and
Expanded Second Edition. Here is the definitive biography of
American poet and artist Kenneth Patchen. Kenneth Patchen
(1911-1972) was a poet, novelist, artist, performer of poetry-jazz
in the tradition of engaged writing which he helped forge in
America. Producing a book a year during his writing life, his work
and life stand as a huge exposed girder in the structure of
American culture and art. His friendships with such writers as
James Laughlin, Henry Miller, E. E. Cummings, Muriel Rukeyser, Amos
Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Rexroth, David
Dellinger, Jonathan Williams, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti place him
at the center of dissident writing in America.Rising from his
native grounds in working-class Ohio, he became a leading figure
among the Leftist thinkers and artists of 1930s and 1940s Greenwich
Village, then moved on to the West Coast where he created dynamic
blends of poetry and art, poetry and jazz, poetry and theater.
Finally crippled with back pain during the last decades of his
life, he created the famed picture poems of his Wonder Period.For
four decades on East and West Coasts, by the force of his will and
native genius, Patchen molded life and art as one. With the loving
support of wife Miriam, he endured the pain and travail of years of
struggle to recast an art based on truth and striking beauty. The
tale of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen has become one of the great
lover stories of American literature. His is the story of the rebel
artist in America."In my eyes Kenneth Patchen is now and will
remain one of the outstanding figures in American letters. He
represents all that a poet should represent, whether expressing
himself in verse, in prose, in paint, or in action. By his example
he has given courage, direction, and inspiration to more poets than
anyone I know of on this continent Patchen stands out like a
shining warrior, a herald of peace and truth, endowed with
invincible heart and integrity. No one can read him without being
affected--and influenced in his own life and work. It is not only
the youth who are indebted to him but all of us, unto the last and
most fanatically ardent defender of the Word."--Henry Miller
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