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...Canadian book also offers a place for a hymn or poem. Hayes inserted a poem by Kenneth Patchen, The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost, which includes the lines...
...Miller would put it, "Chthonian") movements has been rumbling about the name and personality of Henry Miller, and a committee-sized panel of names has been assembled by the publishers to "welcome Miller among the elect." The encomiums range in warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man band," a "Patagonian." As to what Patagonian...
...tremolos in the strings punctuated by over-orchestrated fortissimo chords, one gathers that Mr. Cutler's concept of death is merely a scary mood, not unlike the effect of the most terrifying sections of a horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp the unprofound programmatic idea that Mr. Cutler seems to have had in mind. Yet, in spite of this immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control...
...best characteristics of written Patchen is his vitality, one of the worst features of spoken Patchen is his boredom. It's surprising because before hearing him read you'd think he was jumping all over the place while writing his stuff. The choice of poems on the record is a good one, largely because he leans on the chuckle-chuckle side and forgets this country's inevitable American woe. All of the "Limericks" are included, and they sound just as good, and maybe better, than they read...
...Patchen backed by jazz is something else. The jazzmen, led by Allyn Ferguson (who wrote the note on the jacket and was considerate enough to quote himself at one point), seem competent enough, but the effect of the two working on each other destroys more than it gives. Words blot out the music, and, as they say, vice versa. Patchen claims to have thought up jazz and poetry, love and marriage. Kenneth Rexroth, across the street and down the hill, claims the same thing. They both would do well to forget the unhappy, er, nuptuals...