Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen

Author: Kenneth Patchen

Editor: Allen Frost

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press (2012)

"Reading Patchen is a profound literary experience, an absolute delighting in humanity’s possibilities yet also a despondence, sometimes even anger, over our shortcomings.  These themes play themselves out here in Patchen’s impassioned letters to such friends and colleagues as Henry Miller, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, et. al.  To read this correspondence is to be astonished by Patchen’s insatiable quest for all that is good in life, a quest that led him from proletarianism to concretism to jazz to painted poems.  Embrace hope, ye who enter here."  —Eckhard Gerdes, editor of Journal of Experimental Fiction