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- Let Us Have Madness Let us have madness openly. O men Of my...
- The Artist's Duty So it is the duty of the artist to ...
- As We Are So Wonderfully Done ...
- When We Were Here Together when we were here together in a ...
- Fall Of The Evening Star Speak softly; sun going down Out of...
- Do The Dead Know What Time It ... The old guy put down his ...
- Creation Wherever the dead are there they are and Nothing ...
an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists. Patchen's ambitious body of work also foreshadowed literary art-forms ranging from reading poetry to jazz accompaniment to his late experiments with visual poetry (which he called his "picture poems").
In 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles, Ohio. His lifelong romance with writing commenced at age twelve, when he took up keeping a diary and reading the works of famous writers. His first published work was in his high school newspaper. After working for two years with his father, ... more »
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Let Us Have Madness
Let us have madness openly.
O men Of my generation.
Let us follow
The footsteps of this slaughtered age:
See it trail across Time's dim land
Into the closed house of eternity
With the noise that dying has,
With the face that dead things wear--
nor ever say
We wanted more; we looked to find
An open door, an utter deed of love,
Transforming day's evil darkness;
but We found extended hell and fog Upon the earth,
and within the head
A rotting bog of lean huge graves.
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What a wonderful observation about the deer we get love and emotion on nature
Please help - years ago I read Patchen and there was one prose poem with no puncuation about The terrible white tiger that floats in the air and And oh my love I have nowhere at all to take thee that was heartbreaking and beautiful. Does anyone know the title of the book it was in?
The Deer and the Snake is a poem discovered as an undergraduate that has haunted me for close to fifty years such is its beauty and depth. Bill Grace It is here one click away.
I think that kenneth patchen's poems can be purchased from city lights bookstore in san Francisco.
Aarrrgghhh! I had hoped to find Patchen's poem which had sledding in it- -no, not the light it's fun in the snow kind of poem but about human darkness. Tragedy, I think. Heck, I was only 13 or so when I found my then dead uncle's book of Patchen poems. And, Chad, I'm soooo sorry but I gave it away last year, nearly 50 years later. Lovely little book it was, too. I was having a life clear-out and wasn't thinking straight. I wasn't aware of Patchen's importance to my life and times- -the resistance to the Vietnam War and to stupid cultural values and mores. I thank him from this side of the big divide and wish him well, wherever he's translating reality now. Back to reading his poems. Oh, hello everyone!
Hello everybody,
I came across Kenneth Patchen only recently, through a poem of his read by Johnny Dowd on an album by Jackie Leven: The Skaters (the album title is 'Oh what a Blow that Phantom Dealt me') . I was intrigued and deeply moved by the poem itself and by the way it was performed and set to music. Unfortunately I don't understand all of it (I'm German) , so I'd be very happy if someone could post it here. It's in the book 'Still Another Pelican in the Breadbasket', which doesn't seem to be available here.
Thanks a lot.
Christine
Hello Ola,
I was very touched by your comment.
I have the same feeling about Kenneth Patchen, even if I dont know all his work.
I'm from Belgium and had only the opportunity to read what I can still find on the web.
Maybe you could help me.
I'm looking for all the poems of kenneth Patchen.
I love his writing. As you. Deeply. I hate so many poems...
and I seem to like nearly everything Patchen's done.
I had two wonderful poems of him that I lost.
One is about a lynching in the South of USA. I think it's called 'Good day for a Lynching'.
The other is about loosers, loneliness and whores
I've lost the nameof it..
But anyway...
anything from/on from Kenneth Patchen interests me, please let me know.
I'm ready to buy old book of him. As well as Tenesse Williams old stuff.
If you can help.
Just mail me at: chadpalomino@gmail.com or reach me through here.
MANY thanks
For all
Hommage to Kenneth Patchen.
I allowed myself to copy and paste a comment I've just read.
Read it again. Or maybe you've missed it.
It's the first comment on Patchen. And it's real.
You can go down the page and see the original:
Ola Lars Andresen (9/24/2005 8: 00: 00 PM)
I'm amazed to find myself the first to offer a comment about Kenneth Patchen. I've read him over and again since 1967, so it's time then. To make it short. Without him, there wouldn't have been a beat generation or any beat poetry or fiction - the way it all came along. Patchen inspired them all. I first came across his name in a small collection of literary essays by Henry Miller, but I first got a chance to read him when offered some books by a fugative representative of the Black Panters a year before the European student revolts in 1968.
I'm till this day intrigued by a novel called The Journal of Albion Moonlight, first published in 1950, I belive. Unfortunatelyg I think its message is more valid now than ever. The way I read it, it's about a fascist US.
And his poems? Just start reading, laughing and crying.
If somebody wonders about my age and gender, I'm close to 60 and male.
HELP HELP HELP HELP, please: -)
Hello, I'm looking for all poems of kenneth Patchen.
I love his writing. Deeply.
I had two wonderful poems of him that I lost.
One is about a lynching in the South of USA. I think it's called 'Good day for a Lynching'.
The other is about loosers, loneliness and whores
I've lost the nameof it..
But anyway...
if someone know of other poems than these from Kenneth Patchen, please let me know.
I'm ready to buy old book of him. As well as Tenesse Williams old stuff.
Just mail me at: chadpalomino@gmail.com or through here.
MANY thanks
Like Lars, I read the journal of Albion Moonlight during the war years of Vietnam Nam...but this poem I have remembered, Creation and many other of his love poems, there is no person who does not want to be loved as Mirium was loved.Anybody remember The Origin of Baseball?