Background
Patchen, Kenneth was born on December 13, 1911 in Niles, Ohio, United States. Son of Wayne and Eva (McQuade) Patchen.
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Kenneth Patchen
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Student of University Wisconsin, 1929-1930.
Career
Guggenheim fellowship 1936. Exhibited paintings various cities universities, one-man show San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972. Originator painted covers limited editions books, including Dark Kingdom, Sleepers Awake, Panels for the Walls of Heaven, Red Wine and Yellow Hair.
Author: Before the Brave (poetry), 1936.
First Will and Testament (poetry), 1939. The Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1941.
The Dark Kingdom (poetry) 1942. The Teeth of the Lion (poetry), 1942.
Cloth of the Tempest (poetry) 1943.
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, 1945. An Astonished Eye Looks Out of The Air (poetry), 1945. Sleepers Awake, 1946.
Panels Foreign The Walls of Heaven (poems in prose), 1947.
The Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1947. Pictures of Life and of Death, 1947.
They Keep Riding Down All The Time, 1947. See You In The Morning, 1948.
Red Wine and Yellow Hair (poetry), 1949.
To Say If You Love Someone (poetry) 1949. Orchards, Thrones and Caravans (poetry), 1952. The Famous Boating Party (poems in prose), 1953.
Fables and Other Little Tales (prose), 1953.
Poemscapes (songs and proverbs), 1955. Glory Never Guesses (poems and paintings), 1955.
Surprise for the Bagpipe Player (silkscreen eproductions and poems), 1956. Hurrah for Anything (poems and drawings), 1957.
When We Were Here Together (poems), 1957.
Because lieutenant Is (poems and drawings), 1959. Don’t Look Now (drama), 1959. But Even So (poems and drawings), 1963.
There’s Love All Day (poems), 1970.
AFlame and AFun of Walking/Faces (fables and drawings), 1970. Wonderings (picture-poems, drawing-poems), 1971.
In Quest of Candle-Lighters (poetry, prose, drawings), 1972. Experimental radio play The City Wears A Slouch Hat, Columbia Workshop, New York City, 1942.
Public numerous anthologies.
Appeared radio, television, nightclubs, concert stage with jazz groups, 1957-1958. Recorded Kenneth Patchen Reads with The Chamber Jazz Sextet, 1957, Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, Read by Himself, Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazzing Canada. Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems, 1961.
The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1960.
Kenneth Patchen Reads His Funny Fables, 1973. Kenneth Patchen Reads From the Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1973.
Doubleheader (poems-drawings), 1966. Hallelujah Anyway (picture-poems), published in 1967.
Collected Poems, published in 1968.
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Married Miriam Oikemus, June 28, 1934.
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American