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Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 19111213 - 19720108

Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

American Renegades: Kenneth Patchen, d.a.levy, D.r.Wagner / Patchen, Kenneth ; levy, d.a. ; Wagner, D.r. ; Patchen M ; Swanberg I ; Taylor K ; Crane M ; Bottoms R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26499-26968
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent several works of the three artist-poets to the exhibition including Cleveland Prints, The North American Book of the Dead, Scarab Poems by d.a. levy; The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Cloth of the Tempest, Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen; 18th Dynasty Egyptian Turnon by D.r. Wagner. Although there was no check list with the catalogue, the superb installation photographs of the books and prints in cases more than make up for this oversight. The suite of collages entitled Zen Concrete on display at this exhibition were purchased by the Sackners from Ingrid Swanberg in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

An Astonished Eye Looks out of the Air / Patchen, Kenneth., 1945

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Identifier: CC-04289-4369
Scope and Contents

Each page is set up so that the poetry overlays the title, printed vertically as large block, white letters. This is the second printing of the first edition. Only about 30 copies of the first printing survived. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1945

Awash with Roses, 1991

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Identifier: CC-27595-28672
Scope and Contents

A biographical introduction is a moving and illuminating study of the family and environment that inflluenced Patchen and a touching study of the love and dedication between Kenneth and Miriam Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems and Photographs / Williams, John ; Duncan R ; Oppenheimer J ; Johnson R ; Olson C ; Patchen K ; Creeley R ; Finlay IH ; Meyer T ; Bunting B ; Hamilton AS ; Dickey J ; Gardner I ; Hawkins S ; Anthony B ; DuPlessix F ; Rexroth K., 2000

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Identifier: CC-38406-40311
Scope and Contents

In this book of previously published brief essays and interviews, Jonathan Williams describes his publishing in Jargon as follows: "Most of the people we've published despise ninety-five percent of the others we've done - that's probably a very healthy thing. Remember, you're dealing with a hillbilly oligarch, a crank. Whether it's poetry of photography or visionary fold-art or persons themselves, I love things that are 'bright-eyed, non-uppity, autochthonous, wacko, private, isolate, unconventional, unpaved, non-commercial, non-nice, naive, outside, fantastic, sub-aesthetic, home-style and bushy-tailed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

CCCLXXIV Poems, 1948

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Identifier: CC-55673-51118
Scope and Contents

This book consists of three books by Patchen: " First Will & Testament, The Dark Kingdom, and Cloth of the Tempest." All were individually issed and are held by the Sackner Archive. The dust jacket designed by Patchen's wife, Miriam, has been removed from this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1948

Cloth of the Tempest, 1948

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Identifier: CC-04285-4364
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published in 1943 and might be a unuique copy and might be a unque copy with added calligraphic text and a drawing. . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1948

Come in Here Child / Bedford, David ; Patchen, Kenneth., 1968

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Identifier: CC-21060-21469
Scope and Contents

The words were written by Kenneth Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Confessional Poem to Free the Mind of its Hang Ups and Kep the Underworld Free of its Goofy Spirits / Wagner, D.r. ; Geer R ; levy da ; Patchen K ; McClure M ; Miller B., 1970

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Identifier: CC-48216-69240
Scope and Contents

The front cover was designed by Richard Geer, the back cover by D.r. Wagner. This book consists of poetic quotes by others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

First Will and Testament, 1939

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Identifier: CC-30334-31746
Scope and Contents

Most of the poetry is conventional but the writing of the fictional pieces is experimental, a preamble to the highly experimental poetic and fictional works that Patchen produced in the next seven years. A prototypical visual poem is depicted on page 102. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1939

Fission / Kempton, Karl ; Grumman B ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Huth G., 1988

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Identifier: CC-32347-33914
Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Glory Never Guesses & Other Pages / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

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Identifier: CC-04291-4371
Scope and Contents

On the verso of prints, it is mentioned that only 200 copies were made; however, several individual prints from this series are also held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, Patchen's book, "The Moment," also held by the Sackner Archive, includes several of these prints but the paper on which they are printed differs between the two books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Hurrah For Anything [limited edition], 1957

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Identifier: CC-61491-51120
Scope and Contents

Also designated Jargon 21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

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Picture poetry 37
Conventional poetry 29
Calligraphic text 28
Conventional fiction 19
Concrete poetry 14