{"product_id":"selected-correspondence-of-kenneth-patchen-9781933964553","title":"Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen","description":"Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatchen, Kenneth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a rebel poet, playwright, fiction and fable writer, artist, and performer of poetry-jazz, working in the tradition of engaged writing which he helped to forge in America.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrost, Allen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Allen Frost lives in Bellingham, Washington, with wife Laura, daughter Rosa and son Rustle. He was born in La Jolla, California, and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine. He has lived and worked in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and Huron, Ohio. He works in the library at Western Washington University. His Ohio Trio: Fictions appeared in 2001 from Bottom Dog Press, followed by Bowl of Water written between 1989-2002. Another Life is drawn from limited edition poetry chapbooks written 2002-2007. Home Recordings appeared from Bird Dog Publishing in 2010. He contributed an article to the collection d.a.levy and the mimeograph revolution (2008). He is an associate editor of Bottom Dog Press.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatchen, Kenneth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a poet, playwright, fiction and fable \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewriter, artist, and performer of poetry-jazz, working in the tradition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eof engaged writing which he helped to forge in America. Producing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ealmost a book a year for 36 years, his work stands as an exposed girder \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ein the structure of American character and art. His friendships with \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esuch writers as Amos Wilder, Lewis Mumford, James Laughlin, Henry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiller, Kenneth Rexroth, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eothers place him at the center of dissident writing in America. Rising \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom his native grounds in working-class Ohio, he became a leading \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efigure among Leftist thinkers and artists in Greenwich Village�s 1930s \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand 40s. In the 1950s he moved to the West Coast where he created \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eartistic blends of poetry and art, and poetry and jazz. Finally crippled \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewith back pain during the last decade of his life, he created the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewonderful picture-poems. For four decades, on East and West Coast, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eby the force of his own will and his native genius, Patchen molded a \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elife and art as one. With the loving support of his wife Miriam he \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eendured the pain and travail of years of struggle to recast an art based \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eon truth and striking beauty. His is one of the great stories of American \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eliterature.","brand":"Bottom Dog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364195602706,"sku":"9781933964553","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_606b4ed6-367f-47d8-8f12-2b3a0fd269f4.jpg?v=1728428552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-correspondence-of-kenneth-patchen-9781933964553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}