Word: patchen
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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BEFORE THE BRAVE-Kenneth Patchen -Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT-Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered...