Awash with Roses: Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen - Softcover

Patchen, Kenneth

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Synopsis

Poetry. Available again in a revised reissue, AWASH WITH ROSES, Patchen's classic collection of 100 love poems, includes a biographical introduction of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen by the writer's biographer Larry Smith. Kenneth Patchen wrote fiction and poetry, did poetry-poems, poetry-jazz, and poems-and-drawings. He was a key figure in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1930's and 1940's, then active in the pre-Beat period of the West Coast. His love poems are lasting testimonies of devotion to his loved one and to the world.

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About the Author

Kenneth Patchen was the author of 38 books of poetry, fiction, and art as well as one of the finest performers of poetry- jazz.
Larry Smith has been the "Patchen Man" for over 3 decades doing the research and working to keep his writings available. He teaches at Bowling Green State University and directs Bottom Dog Press.

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9780933087194: Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen

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ISBN 10:  0933087195 ISBN 13:  9780933087194
Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 1991
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