Kenneth Patchen Summary

Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) American novelist, poet, and playwright. An archetypal rebel poet, Patchen wrote angry, uncompromising, anti-war poetry, experimented with the form of the novel, ... Read more

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a major American experimental poet and novelist influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism.Kenneth Patchen's father was a steel worker in Youngstown and, later, in Warren, Oh... Read more

From the publication of his passionately proletarian volume of poetry Before the Brave in 1936 until his death in 1972, Kenneth Patchen produced roughly a book a year--all of them daringly bold in for... Read more

Critical Essay by William Carlos Williams Whether or not [The Journal of Albion Moonlight] is a good [book] (let's not talk prematurely of genius) I believe it to be a right one, a well direct... Read more

Critical Essay by Alan Brownjohn In our late teens we would quote with wry approval two lines of tight-lipped weariness from 'Street Corner College', in the old Grey Walls Press selecti... Read more

Critical Essay by Jascha Kessler I have been fond of Patchen ever since I read his "Journal of Albion Moonlight" in my teens, together with that other surreal masterpiece, "Maldo... Read more

Critical Essay by James Schevill It is too soon for any authoritative statement about [Patchen's] poetic range. Too much of his poetry is concealed…. He was always a prolific, hardworki... Read more