Awash with Roses: Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen

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.

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.