Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen (1911 - 1972)

Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972) was an American poet and painter. He was an influence on the beat movement.

Poems By Kenneth Patchen

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As We Are So Wonderfully Done With Each Other (No Comments »)
Creation (No Comments »)
Fall of the Evening Star (No Comments »)
In the footsteps of the walking air (No Comments »)
Irkalla’s White Caves (No Comments »)
Let Us Have Madness (No Comments »)
Pastoral (No Comments »)
Saturday Night in the Parthenon (No Comments »)
The Artist’s Duty (No Comments »)
The Hangman’s Great Hands (No Comments »)
The Naked Land (No Comments »)
The Orange Bears (No Comments »)
The Slums (No Comments »)
The Temple (No Comments »)
There Are Not Many Kingdoms Left (No Comments »)
We Go Out Together In the Staring Town (1 Comment »)
When We Were Here Together (No Comments »)
Analysis, meaning and summary of Kenneth Patchen's poem When We Were Here Together
An unforgettable, apocalyptic novel from a distinctly American prophet Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean “Tom o’Bedlam” (“By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten ...
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
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Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do...
The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: Novel (New Dire...
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The definitive collection of anti-establishment American poetry, from Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac to Sapphire and Tupac Shakur "Welcome to the Wild West of American Poetry, the Hole-In-The-Wall of Blakean vision, a two-fisted saloon of New World dream...
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
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44 all new picture-poems. 44 poesie visive illustrate in nero . 16mo pp. 80 circa Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)
But Even So, Picture Poems, NDP265
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A selection of well-known and rare poems from the great experimental poet. 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 ...
Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen (New Directions...
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