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Kenneth Patchen : a collection of essays / edited and with an introduction by Richard G. Morgan ; foreword by Miriam Patchen.

New York, N.Y. : AMS Press, Inc., 1977.

©1977

xxiii, 262 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

"In this book, Richard Morgan has collected all the important essays and reviews on Patchen written from 1941-1976. Also included are a chronology, a number of illustrations, a selective bibliography of sources for further research and a foreword by Miriam Patchen, the wife to whom all of Patchen's books were dedicated. This is the first critical book on Patchen"--Jacket.

[AMS studies in modern literature ; no.2]

AMS studies in modern literature ; no. 2.

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Essays.

Morgan, Richard G., 1950- editor, author of introduction, etc.

Patchen, Miriam, author of introduction, etc.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262).

A counsel of madness / William Carlos Williams. A poet of the steel works / Babette Deutsch. Puck in the Gardens of the sun / Frajam Taylor. Patchen's angry shoes / James T. Hall. Kenneth Patchen, naturalist of the public nightmare / Kenneth Rexroth. Kenneth Patchen : poetry, and poetry with jazz / John Ciardi -- Patchen, man of anger and light / Henry Miller. The most mysterious people in the village / Holly Beye, William McCleery. Kenneth Patchen Reads with jazz in Canada / Alan Neil. Out of sight, out of conscience / Jonathan Williams. An interview with Kenneth Patchen / KUOW Radio (Seattle). Patchen interviewed / Gene Detro. Notes from a friend / Richard Bowman. Memorial poetry reading for Kenneth Patchen / Richard Hack. Kenneth Patchen : the search for wonder and joy / James Schevill -- Revolutionary and proletarian poetry : Kenneth Patchen / Amos N. Wilder. Kenneth Patchen and the critical blind alley / Harvey Breit. Introducing Kenneth Patchen / David Gascoyne. The journal of Albion moonlight : its form and meaning / Richard G. Morgan. The world of Kenneth Patchen / Charles I. Glicksberg. Before the brave : portrait of a man as a young artist / Tom Lozar. Patchen's poetry and jazz / Peter Yates. The jazz musician as Patchen's hero / Carolyn See. The moral prose of Kenneth Patchen / Ray Nelson.

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