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Kenneth Patchen


Born
in Niles, Ohio, The United States
December 13, 1911

Died
January 08, 1972

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Walt Whitman; William Blake; Arthur Rimbaud ...more


Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman. Patchen's biographer wrote that he "developed in his fabulous fables, love poems, and picture poems a deep yet modern mythology that conveys a sense of compassionate wonder amidst the world's violence." Along with his friend and peer Kenneth Rexroth, he was a central influence on the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 3,862 ratings · 356 reviews · 156 distinct works • Similar authors
The Journal of Albion Moonl...
4.22 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1941 — 16 editions
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Collected Poems
4.37 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions
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Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
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3.79 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1948 — 24 editions
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Selected Poems
4.10 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions
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Hallelujah Anyway
4.44 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions
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Sleepers Awake
4.39 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1946 — 8 editions
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What Shall We Do Without Us...
4.68 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions
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Wonderings
4.40 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions
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Because it Is
4.32 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions
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The Love Poems
4.26 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1961 — 19 editions
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“Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”
― Kenneth Patchen
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“The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.”
― Kenneth Patchen
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“There are so many little dyings
How do we know which one of them
is death?


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― Kenneth Patchen
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