PATCHEN KENNETH

(P/B) THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT
Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean Tom O'Bedlam: ("By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I am summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond The wide world's end / Methinks it is no journey..."), Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey to the furthest limits of love and murder, madness and sex. While on this disordered pilgrimage to H. Roivas (Heavenly Savior), various characters offer deranged responses, conveying an otherworldly, imaginative madness. A chronicle of violent...
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(P/B) WE MEET
The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and political activists for decades. New Directions is proud to launch a Patchen revival beginning with omnibus editions of his unique compositions. We Meet highlights Patchen's more outlandish side and includes, like fabrics stitched into a crazy quilt, Because It Is, A Letter to God, Poemscapes, Hurrah For Anything, and Aflame & Afun of Walking Faces. "Because to understand one must begin somewhere," opens Patchen's fabulous book of poems Because It Is: perhaps the most i...
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(P/B) THE WALKING-AWAY WORLD
The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and political activists for decades. New Directions is proud to launch a Patchen revival beginning with omnibus editions of his unique compositions. 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." Patchen answered the riddle by painting "picture-poems." The Walking-Away World contains three of his picture-poem collections: Wonderings, Hallelujah Anyway, and But ...
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(P/B) COLLECTED POEMS
From the appearance in 1936 of Kenneth Patchen's first book, the voice of this great poet has been protesting war and social injustice, satirizing the demeaning and barbarous inanities of our culture - entrancing us with an inexhaustible flow of humor and fantasy. With directness and simplicity, he has restored the exultation of romantic love to its ancient bardic place beside an awareness of God's living presence among all men. Kenneth Patchen assembled this collection in his fifty-fourth year. Since space was the only restricting factor ...
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ΑΣ ΔΕΧΤΟΥΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΤΡΕΛΑ
"Για να στολίσουν ποιον τα στόματα των ρόδων ανοίγουν και μιλούν με αισθηματική μελαγχολία κι από ποιανού τη χάρη τα δέντρα του παραδείσου διδάσκονται να στέκονται λευκά; (Πρέπει να πάω τώρα να δώσω πίσω τις μποτίλιες γάλακτος ώστε να τηλεφωνήσω σε κάποιον να μας δανείσει λεφτά για το δείπνο μας)." - Κένεθ Πάτσεν, "Για να στολίσουν ποιον" Τα ποιήματα του Κένεθ Πάτσεν είναι για όλους. Όχι μέσα από τεχνάσματα ξεχειλωμένης επικοινωνιακότητας, αλλά επειδή είναι τα μπλουζ του ανθρώπου του καθηλωμένου θνητού που κοιτάζει ψηλά. (Μαρία Γιαγιάν...
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(P/B) IN QUEST OF CANDLELIGHTERS
One of his most important and characteristic works, this new collection makes available two of Kenneth Patchen's long out-of-print books: Panels for the Walls of Heaven and They Keep Riding Down All the Time. Both were published in 1946; the first by Bern Porter in Berkeley, California, the second by Padell Publishers in New York. Also included are Patchen's only short story, "Bury Them in Cod," from New Directions 1939, and a section from an early version of Sleepers Awake, "Angel-Carver Blues." The rich variety of prose, poetry (concrete...
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