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Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)

Autore di The Journal of Albion Moonlight

60+ opere 1,731 membri 21 recensioni 11 preferito

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"One of America's most unusual and powerful contemporary poets," said the San Francisco Chronicle of this versatile West Coast poet, writer, and painter. Born in Niles, Ohio, Patchen worked in all sorts of jobs before settling in California. In 1957 he pioneered in the "public birth of mostra altro poetry---jazz" by reading his poems to the accompaniment of the Chamber Jazz Sextet in nightclubs and concert halls on the West Coast, breaking attendance records in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1954 he received the Shelley Memorial Award. Patchen died in 1972 after a prolonged illness, during which he continued to write prolifically. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Opere di Kenneth Patchen

Selected Poems (1946) 167 copie
Sleepers Awake (1946) 85 copie
Because It Is (1960) 75 copie
Poems of humor & protest (1954) 62 copie
Hallelujah Anyway (1966) 60 copie
But even so (1968) 47 copie
Wonderings (1971) 46 copie
We Meet (2008) 24 copie
The Dark Kingdom (1942) 18 copie
There's Love All Day (1970) 17 copie
See You in the Morning (1947) 14 copie
Patchen's Lost Plays (1977) 14 copie
Cloth of the Tempest (1948) 13 copie
Hurrah for Anything (1957) 12 copie
First will & testament (1948) 10 copie
Before the Brave (1936) 9 copie
The Teeth of the Lion (1942) 9 copie
Love & war poems (1968) 7 copie
Poemscapes (1958) 5 copie
In Order To 2 copie
A Love Poem 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Collaboratore — 592 copie
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Collaboratore — 352 copie
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Collaboratore — 128 copie
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Collaboratore — 96 copie
New Masses; An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties, (1969) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Døds-layoutet 1 (1972) — Autore, alcune edizioni; Autore, alcune edizioni3 copie
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Illustratore — 3 copie
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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This lovable mess is a really good illustration of everything that was delightful and horrible about the absurdist avant-garde of the middle of the last century. The first half of the book bears a vague resemblance to a conventional novel, albeit mostly as a framework for some luscious prose poems which set about explicating the human condition and its relationship with the divine. Its skeletal plot narrates a surreal motorcade across America which features numerous oddballs including Jesus and Hitler. The second half of the book brings these characters and their caprices up occasionally, but is increasingly dominated by nonsensical strings of words, sometimes presented as aphorisms, sometimes as just plain lists, and sporadic chapter titles, admittedly very droll, for proposed novels. Some problems which this book may contain for contemporary readers include its considerable length--its modest page count conceals rather fine print and the nonsensical portions especially are pretty slow going. The book is fraught with violence and somewhat misogynistic sex which I found disturbing and which probably will downright offend the politically correct, and the author;s heartfelt but haywire Christianity which will surely offend some, particularly the devout. There are also more than a few literary parlor tricks such as parallel texts running in the margins, an annoyance which I found quite offputting. He chews his cud far too much on old-fashioned antiwar-cum-Marxist rants which are typical of the thirties and forties and which I felt deserved a rest after about the seventeenth time through. I came to this as a longtime admirer of Patchen's Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, a much superior book which contains all of the sublimity without the logorrhea, anachronistic politics, and nonsense passages. As a young man, I would have loved this wholeheartedly; as an old man I appreciated much of it but wish it hadn't taken me the better part of a month to read.… (altro)
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | 3 altre recensioni | Dec 10, 2022 |
Anti-establishment poems, some of which I couldn't understand, others I liked, e.g. 'The state of the nation' and 'Lunch wagon on highway 57'. An inscription on the third page 'Dear Pete, Here's a souvenir of the sourdough capital of the world, my ideal home'.
 
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jon1lambert | 1 altra recensione | Feb 5, 2022 |
Includes volumes "Because It Is," "Poenscapes," "A Letter to God," Hurrah for Anything," and "Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces".
 
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JNagarya | Aug 6, 2021 |
Includes volumes "Wonderings," "Hallelujah Anyway," and "But Even So".
 
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JNagarya | Aug 6, 2021 |

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60
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Utenti
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3.9
Recensioni
21
ISBN
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