Call it a sign of the times: In July 1979, as American divorce rates were peaking, Los Angeles magazine ran a tongue-in-cheek article about second (or ...

Funny how poet Kenneth Patchen's message is even more poignant today, two generations down the road. His antiwar pacifism was eclipsed by the overindulgent "beat generation" poets, who claimed him as ...

Given that the world resembles the world, there is an aura of calm surrounding the Lost People--never beginning a particular road they never risk a wrong turn or an end. A mindless (being either above ...

It was about damn time this album got re-issued. Long recognized as the greatest poetry and music collaboration ever set to wax, Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada finally gets the digital ...

Reel contains poems read to music and lengthy segments of music only. Poems include "Letter to Ray Johnson" and "A Fifteen-Hundred Poem." Original box is addressed to J.P. Pickens, a musician and ...

She is the prettiest of creatures -- Fall of the evening star -- She had concealed him -- O my love the pretty towns -- Creation -- The character of love seen as a search -- Religion is that I love ...

REXROTH'S DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN POET AND PAINTER, Kenneth Patchen, is only a small part of the story. Patchen is one of the few poets of the last thirty years who has lived up to his ...

Funny how poet Kenneth Patchen's message is even more poignant today, two generations down the road. His antiwar pacifism was eclipsed by the overindulgent “beat generation" poets, who claimed him as ...