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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Poetry. Available again in a revised reissue, AWASH WITH ROSES, Patchen's classic collection of 100 love poems, includes a biographical introduction of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen by the writer's biographer Larry Smith. Kenneth Patchen wrote fiction a...
Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenn...
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Poetry. Available again in a revised reissue, AWASH WITH ROSES, Patchen's classic collection of 100 ... read more
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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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A selection of well-known and rare poems from the great experimental poet. From the appearance in 19... read more
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The saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer.
The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (New Directions ...
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The saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer.
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A major prose book from the great experimental poet.Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as "novelistic fantasy"––a pioneering new...
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