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Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America

Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Larry SmithSeries:Working LivesPublish date:2013-01-21Pages:322
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bottom Dog PressISBN-13:9781933964652ISBN-10:1933964650UPC:9781933964652Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Literary Figures, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCW1ZWA95Y
"It has taken more that twenty-five years for this great poet's underground life to see the light of day in this rich, thorough, compelling biography. Patchen, our most unfortu�nate, forgotten, unique man of American letters and of' passionate mercy' created his own wonder world of words, kingdoms and creatures to save himself�and us all:

HURRAH FOR ANYTHING and HALLELUJAH ANYWAYI" -- Norbert Blei

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bottom Dog PressISBN-13:9781933964652ISBN-10:1933964650UPC:9781933964652Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Literary Figures, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCW1ZWA95Y
Smith, Larry: - Larry Smith is a poet, novelist, critic, and biographer. His literary biographies include Kenneth Patchen (Twayne Series, G.K. Hall, 1978) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large (Southern Illinois University Press, 1983). His also wrote and co-produced with Tom Koba two video docu-dramas Kenneth Patchen: Poet of Engagement and James Wright's Ohio. He has edited books of

Appalachian and working-class writing for Bottom Dog Press. Together with his wife Ann and poet Phil Metres he edited the national anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace for Bottom Dog Press.

Smith is a professor emeritus of English and Humanities at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University and holds a doctorate from Kent State University. In 1980-1981 he held a Fullbright lectureship in Sicily where he taught a course on American Romanticism and the Beat Movement. His recent books include the novels The Long River Home and The Free Farm, and two books of poetry, A River Remains and Each Moment All.

As a native of the industrial Ohio River Valley he shares a working-class background with author Kenneth Patchen. He and wife Ann live along the shores of Lake Erie in Huron, Ohio.

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press

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2nd Revised Edition

Contributor(s)

Larry Smith

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