Kenneth Patchen and American Mysticism

By Raymond Nelson

Kenneth Patchen and American Mysticism

212 pp., 5 x 8

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9735-5
    Published: July 2010

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Awards & distinctions

1984 Melville Cane Award, Poetry Society of America

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Reviews

"It takes a very American brand of mysticism for a poet to survive as an innocent primitive in the materialist forests of North America. It killed Patchen in the end, but not his poetry. Raymond Nelson's book lays it out."--Lawrence Ferlinghetti