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American Studies

1970

Kenneth Patchen

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Themes And Development In The Poetry Of Kenneth Patchen, Joe Kirby Jan 1970

Themes And Development In The Poetry Of Kenneth Patchen, Joe Kirby

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Kenneth Patchen has been, and continues to be, one of the most influential and controversial figures in contemporary American literature; very few people who read Patchen come away unchanged or uninfluenced by his poetry, and few, if any, of his readers are of mixed emotions about the value of his work: It is either sheer magic and of tremendous artistic merit or it is rough, emotional garbage, a judgement often dependent upon the courage of the reader. Patchen is not held in high esteem publicly by many poets and critics. The American poet Kenneth Rexroth was once advised by an …