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First Will & Testament

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177p red cloth with dustjacket (fragile but complete), title page with stamp "Wehman Bros / Publishers / Hackensack NJ", nice fresh copy

177 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1948

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Kenneth Patchen

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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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Второй сборник — манифестуальный вход в поэтическую вселенную Пэтчена. Из всей его поэзии (с прозой мы уже разобрались), я бы решил, в первую очередь переводить нужно именно его (чем во благовременье и займемся, видимо), он все ж самый показательный и цельный. Кроме того, стихи там перемежаются феерическими (буквально) абсурдисткими пьесами, собранными монтажом. Отдельно следует отметить маленький поэтический цикл «Казни в Москве», написанный в октябре 1937 года.
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