PATCHEN, KENNETH

1911–72, American poet and novelist, b. Niles, Ohio. His writings, characterized by complete freedom of form, embrace genres as diverse as satire, fantasy, and metaphysical love poetry. His early verse—Before the Brave (1936) and First Will & Testament (1939)—places him with the social protest writers of the '30s. Among his many later collections are Red Wine & Yellow Hair (1949), Because It Is (1960), and Hallelujah Anyway (1967). During the 1950s he initiated the practice of reading poetry to a jazz accompaniment. His prose works include The Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941) and the satirical Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (1945). Many of his works are illustrated by his own drawings.

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The Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
Book by Kenneth Patchen; New Directions, 1946
Subjects: Poetry
THE SELECTED POEMS OF KENNETH PATCHEN THE NEW CLASSICS SERIES...Selected Poems" by Kenneth Patchen "The Wanderer" by...Wilfred Owen THE SELECTED POEMS OF KENNETH PATCHEN The New Classics A NEW...
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A Life of Kenneth Rexroth
Book by Linda Hamalian; W. W. Norton, 1991
Subjects: Poets, American--20th Century--Biography, Rexroth, Kenneth--1905-
A Life of KENNETH REXROTH A Life of KENNETH REXROTH Linda Hamalian W W NORTON COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON FRONTISPIECE PHOTOGRAPH: Kenneth Rexroth camping at Ashcroft, Colorado, 1945. Copyright 1991...
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World outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth
Book by Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth; New Directions, 1987
Subjects: Drama
...OUTSIDE THE WINDOW THE SELECTED ESSAYS OF KENNETH REXROTH BOOKS BY KENNETH REXROTH POEMS The Collected Shorter...OUTSIDE THE WINDOW THE SELECTED ESSAYS OF KENNETH REXROTH EDITED BY BRADFORD MORROW A NEW DIRECTIONS...
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Foundations of Communication Theory
Book by Kenneth K. Sereno, C. David Mortensen; Harper & Row, 1970
Subjects: Communication
...FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNICATION THEORY KENNETH K. SERENO University of Southern California...Communication Theory Copyright 1970 by Kenneth K. Sereno and C. David Mortensen Printed...Research in Ethos 197 Kenneth Andersen and Theodore Clevenger Jr...
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International Perspectives on Intercultural Education
Book by Kenneth Cushner; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998
Subjects: Multicultural Education--Cross-Cultural Studies
...Intercultural Education Edited by Kenneth Cushner Kent State University LAWRENCE...intercultural education / edited by Kenneth Cushner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...Cross-cultural studies. I. Cushner, Kenneth. LC1099.I5958 1998 307.117--dc21 98...
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journal articles on: Patchen Kenneth  - 16 results

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O for a Muse of Fire: The Iconoclasm of Jonathan Williams and the Jargon Society
Journal article by Tom Patterson; Afterimage, Vol. 23, 1996
Subjects: Artists and community--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Artists--Attitudes, Iconoclasm--Literature, Williams, Jonathan--Biography
...his admiration for the poems of Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, E. E. Cummings and Robinson...literary influences - Blake, Patchen, Rexroth, Cummings and Jeffers...with drawings by Charles Oscar); Patchens Fables Other Little Tales...
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Books Received
Journal article; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, 1999
...Giroux, 1999. $23.00. (F) Paley, Vivian Gussin. The Kindness of Children. Harvard Univ. Press, 1999. $18.95. (NF) Patchen, Kenneth. The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. New Directions, 1999. Paper: $14.00. (F) Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Fencing...
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Norbert Blei: Portrait of the Artist as Outsider
Journal article by David Pichaske; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Blei, Norbert--Criticism and interpretation, Blei, Norbert--Works, Writing--Analysis, Writing--Methods
...collections of concrete poetry in the Kenneth Patchen mode, and several volumes of...outsider/loser in the tradition of Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, and James T...Miller, William Saroyan, and Kenneth Patchen, but despite them and the moustache...
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An Interview with Bradford Morrow
Journal article by Patrick Mcgrath; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 20, 2000
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Fiction--Evaluation, Novelists--Interviews
...Id read and learned from. Ezra Pound, H. D., Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Djuna Barnes, Henry Miller, John Hawkes...I remember reading an autobiography of John Kenneth Galbraith, who in the years immediately after...
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 63, 2000
...Ficlding, Alison M. Foley, Kenneth H. Frantz, Alison M. Gavin...Misthal, Jeffrey Murphy, Mary Patchen, James Schaefer, Braden...Randi Kamine, Karl J. Kerwood, Kenneth R. Lewis, Francis W. McCloskey...Kiser, Stephen K. Lockridge, Kenneth A. McBride, Erin K. Miller...
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magazine articles on: Patchen Kenneth  - 5 results

 
 
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A Far Rockaway of the Heart
Magazine article; Whole Earth, Summer 1999
Subjects: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence--Addresses, essays, lectures, Poets--Addresses, essays, lectures
...America Singing," of poems by Homer, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich. I think of Bob Dylans early songs and of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine...
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Love Is the Measure
Magazine article by John Garvey; Commonweal, Vol. 125, February 13, 1998
Subjects: Love poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Love--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...guard over him. This was written by the American poet Kenneth Patchen in 1957. What fascinates me about both poems is that...wonderful way that reminds me of Blake, as much of Patchens work does. The importance of these poems for me is...
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Literary Leftovers
Magazine article by Stephen Schwartz; New Criterion, Vol. 22, October 2003
Subjects: Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left (Book)--Reviews
...not only critical incompetence, but also simple ignorance. The ex-Communist Kenneth Rexroth and the anti-Stalinist Kenneth Patchen, both of whom receive short shrift from Wald, wrote much finer verse on Communist and revolutionary themes. So did...
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May Swenson: Selected and Introduced by Anthony Hecht
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Winter 1997
Subjects: Experimental poetry--Works, Modernism (Literature)--Works, Swenson, May--Biography, Women poets--Works
...work of John Hollander (see his volume called Types of Shape) and in some of the surrealists, as well as in poems by Kenneth Patchen. Yet it should not be surprising to find poets with an active interest in the immediate visual aspect of writing...
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Genius as Pariah: The Life and Poems of George Barker
Magazine article by Bill Wadsworth; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Winter 2004
Subjects: Barker, George--Criticism and interpretation, Poets, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
...vulgar because, like the nouveau fiche, it is imitative, and not because it is plebeian: and only vigorous--e.g. Kenneth Patchen--when it is so abominably bad that the badness has to be responsible for the vigor. Most of the best American poetry...


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newspaper articles on: Patchen Kenneth  - 3 results

 
 
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Maroons by Decade
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 27, 2000
...1911-12: Art Jones, Gordon Patchen, Henry Markwardt, Clarence...Clifford Weston, Oswald Hill, Kenneth Pflaum, Chapman Wells, Leon...Albert Huske, Doug Mills, Kenneth Otto, Arthur Shellenberger...Theodore Stern, Oswald Hill, Kenneth Pflaum, Harold Sponholtz, Fred...
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Jazz: Brubeck Tops the Lineup
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 1, 2004
Subjects: Brubeck, Dave
...readings from the work of Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Patchen. The music will include Charlie Parkers "Anthropology" and "Ornithology" and Thelonious Monks " Round Midnight...
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Slatkin, NSO in Tune in Debut
Newspaper article by T.L. Ponick; The Washington Times, September 15, 1996
Subjects: Argento, Dominick, National Symphony Orchestra, Slatkin, Leonard
...something grand, a festive, uplifting piece. Festive this work was not. Setting to music four prosaic poems by Kenneth Patchen, the work keyed off the stirring John F. Kennedy quotations engraved on the Centers walls. But it was difficult...


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Patchen, Kenneth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PATCHEN, KENNETH 1911 72, American poet and novelist, b. Niles, Ohio. His writings, characterized by complete freedom of form, embrace genres...


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