PATCHEN, Kenneth

Patchen was an inspired Expressionist writer with attractive sympathies, as well as a more original visual poet who, in the tradition of William Blake , combined pictures with his own handwritten words in works that are as much idiosyncratic as innovative. There are reasons to regard his greatest achievement as two books of extended prose, The Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941), Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (1945), and Sleepers Awake (1946), which, though they have always been in print,...