Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen (New Directions Books) - Softcover

Patchen, Kenneth

 
9780811201407: Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen (New Directions Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811201406 ISBN 13: 9780811201407
Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 1968

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A modern American poet offers his interpretation of life, love, war, and death

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Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was one of the most prolific American poets of his time. He was born in Niles, Ohio. He attended school at the University of Madison-Wisconsin where he met his wife, Miriam Oikemus. They moved to Greenwich Village and befriended many writers including E.E. Cummings, Anais Nïn, and Henry Miller. An accident occurred after his first publication that would eventually leave him an invalid. He and his wife later moved to San Francisco during the early years of the Beat Movement. Many Beat poets would cite Patchen as a major influence. His "experimental protests" in poetry, painting, and prose remain unprecedented. Aside from his many books of poetry, his acclaimed novels, and his concrete visual works, Kenneth Patchen also collaborated with John Cage for the radio-play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, and worked with Charles Mingus developing jazz poetry. Patchen was an unwavering pacifist and many of his works have a political bent. Patchen was the first recipient of an NEA Literary Grant in 1967.

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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 inanities of our culture--entrancing us with an inexhaustible flow of humor and fantasy.

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Verlag
NEW DIRECTIONS
Erscheinungsdatum
1968
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811201406
ISBN 13 
9780811201407
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
516
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