Kenneth Patchen's last words to New Directions founder James Laughlin were "When you find out which came first, the chicken or the egg, you write and tell me." Answering his own question comes Patchen's "picture-poem."The Walking-Away World reissues three of his picture-poem classics: Wonderings, But Even So, and Hallelujah Anyway. Inspired by the "illuminated printing" of William Blake, Patchen worked in a spirited fervency with watercolor, casein, inks, and other media to create absurdly compelling works. His entire process was a simultaneous fusion of...
Kenneth Patchen's last words to New Directions founder James Laughlin were "When you find out which came first, the chicken or the egg, you write and ...
Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) contains letters from such literary figures as: Harvey Breit - Alex Comfort - E.E. Cummings - Robert Duncan - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin - James Boyer May - Alexander Meiklejohn - Henry Miller - Henry Moe - Harriet Monroe-Lewis Mumford - Alan Neil - Miriam Patchen - Henry Rago - Kenneth Rexroth -Harry Roskolenko - Isabel Smith-Stein - Wallace Stevens - Dylan Thomas - Leon Trotsky -Louis Untermeyer - Amos Wilder - Thomas Wolfe - Jasper Wood.
Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) contains letters from such literary figures as: Harvey Breit - Alex Comfort - E.E. Cummings - R...
