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Kenneth Patchen

• Kenneth Patchen Home Page This is a very resourceful home page for KP. Courtesy of Marcus Williamson
  http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/
  
  
• "Patchen: Man of Anger & Light" by Henry Miller and "A Letter to God" by Kenneth Patchen
  http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g188/hreh0001/pal.html
  
  
• Kenneth Patchen Survey from Kaldron and Light and Dust. Includes Visual Arias from Sleepers Awake and Painted and Silkscreened Poems by KP.
  http://www.concentric.net/~lndb/patchen/kpint.htm
  
  
• A couple of verses: "Let Us Have Madness", "The Hangman's Great Hands" and 'real cool' picture...
  http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g188/hreh0001/patchen.html
  
  
• A Kenneth Patchen page includes a bibliography and short bio at the Academy of American Poets. KP's poem, The Orange Bears is published there.
  http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/kpatcfst.htm
  
  
• who are you? published at the Nick Herbert Home Page
  http://bbs.cruzio.com/~quanta/ctg2.html
  
  
• Kenneth Patchen, Naturalist of the Public Nightmare An essay by Kenneth Rexroth from the Bureau of Public Secrets.
  http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/patchen.htm
  
  
• Kenneth Patchen - The Journal of Albion Moonlight (about the novel).
  http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bkTheJournalOfAlbionMoon.html
  
  

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  • Awash With Roses : The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen by Kenneth Patchen, Larry Smith (Editor), Laura Smith (Editor).
    Hardcover (February 1997) Bottom Dog Press; ISBN: 0933087195
    Paperback Bottom Dog Press; ISBN: 0933087217
    
    
  • Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces by Kenneth Patchen. Hardcover (December 1970) W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0811203417
    
    
  • The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen Paperback (October 1969) W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0811201406
    
    
  • The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen Paperback (June 1961) W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0811201449 L.C. call numbers: PS3531.A764 J6, and PZ3.P2714 Jo
    This is KP's great experimental "novel" from the WWII era.
    
    
  • The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer : An Amusement (New Directions Classics, 879) by Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Williams (Introduction). Paperback - 242 pages (June 1999) New Directions; ISBN: 0811214117
    
    
  • Selected Poems by Kenneth Patchen. Paperback (April 1985) W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0811201465
    
    
  • What Shall We Do Without Us? : The Voice and Vision of Kenneth Patchen by Kenneth Patchen, James Laughlin (Photographer). Paperback - 24 pages 1st Ed. edition (October 1984) Random House (Paper); ISBN: 0871568187
    This is a selection - in color - of the painted poems of KP from the late sixties.
    
    
  • Wonderings by Kenneth Patchen. Paperback (December 1971) New Directions; ISBN: 081120149X
    More picture-poems.