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, ...
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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...
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Kenneth Patchen was a part of the air the Beats breathed. By the time they arrived in the San Francisco area in the mid-1950s, he was already there as an elder statesman of the American avant-garde. B...
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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...
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Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen
