Here is the revised and expanded second edition of Larry Smith's biography of noted American author and artist, Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972). Patchen was an intimate of fellow artists and writers: Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, James Laughlin, E.E.Cummings, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. With over 38 books, he published a book a year during his life...proletarian, avaunt-garde, politically engaged writing, and he pioneered experiments in poetry-jazz, and picture-poems.The story of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen is one of the great love stories in American Literature
Here is the revised and expanded second edition of Larry Smith's biography of noted American author and artist, Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972). Patchen w...
