AFLAME AND AFUN OF WALKING FACES
by KENNETH PATCHEN
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Revising the Wild Mind of Kenneth Patchen.
His calligraphy is awkwardly gorgeous. His pictorial styles remind me the painting by Chagall.
His colors vibrate. He gets away with using poetically "exiled" words such as "beautiful" with a panache that's convincing and delicate. "Beautiful" become freshly appropriate, even just invented.
Joyousness conveys even in the darkest images and poems—their prophecy seems aural as well as visual. How that happens, I don't know. They agonize over the closed horrors of the world while offering hope. Patchen awakens an innocence that calls forth action. He speaks to the dead parts that need to be awakened. His poems and poem/paintings require our active resistance, our active engagement in the world.
He died in Palo Alto, California in 1972.
His calligraphy is awkwardly gorgeous. His pictorial styles remind me the painting by Chagall.
His colors vibrate. He gets away with using poetically "exiled" words such as "beautiful" with a panache that's convincing and delicate. "Beautiful" become freshly appropriate, even just invented.
Joyousness conveys even in the darkest images and poems—their prophecy seems aural as well as visual. How that happens, I don't know. They agonize over the closed horrors of the world while offering hope. Patchen awakens an innocence that calls forth action. He speaks to the dead parts that need to be awakened. His poems and poem/paintings require our active resistance, our active engagement in the world.
He died in Palo Alto, California in 1972.
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- Bookseller
- Libra Internet Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LZ369332121379FZ
- Title
- AFLAME AND AFUN OF WALKING FACES
- Author
- KENNETH PATCHEN
- Illustrator
- DRAWINGS BY KENNETH PATCHEN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST PUBLISHED as NEW DIRECTIONS PAPERBOOK 292 IN 1970
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Direction Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporations
- Place of Publication
- Manufactured in the United Stated of America
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 87
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- crime and violence, nightmare
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