Background
Smith, Larry Rae was born on February 11, 1943 in Mingo Junction, Ohio, United States. Son of Delbert Ross and Jean Rae (Putnam) Smith.
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Here is the definitive biography of American poet and artist Kenneth Patchen. Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a poet, novelist, artist, performer of poetry-jazz in the tradition of engaged writing which he helped forge in America. Producing a book a year during his writing life, his work and life stand as a huge exposed girder in the structure of American culture and art. His friendships with such writers as James Laughlin, Henry Miller, E. E. Cummings, Muriel Rukeyser, Amos Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Rexroth, David Dellinger, Jonathan Williams, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti place him at the center of dissident writing in America. Rising from his native grounds in working-class Ohio, he became a leading figure among the Leftist thinkers and artists of 1930's and 1940's Greenwich Village, then moved on to the West Coast where he created dynamic blends of poetry and art, poetry and jazz, poetry and theater. Finally crippled with back pain during the last decades of his life, he created the famed picture poems of his Wonder Period. For four decades on East and West Coasts, by the force of his will and native genius, Patchen molded life and art as one. With the loving support of wife Miriam, he endured the pain and travail of years of struggle to recast an art based on truth and striking beauty. The tale of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen has become one of the great lover stories of American literature. His is the story of the rebel artist in America.
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The definitive biography of American author and artist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) by Larry Smith. "It has taken more that twenty-five years for this great poet's underground life to see the light of day in this rich, thorough, compelling biography. Patchen, our most unfortu¬nate, forgotten, unique man of American letters and of' passionate mercy' created his own wonder world of words, kingdoms and creatures to save himself—and us all: HURRAH FOR ANYTHING and HALLELUJAH ANYWAY!" -- Norbert Blei
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This is the first critical study to come to grips with the work of Ferlinghetti, a man who eludes classification because he practices most forms of art, because he is both educated (doctorate from the Sorbonne) and streetwise, and because for more than 25 years he has followed the expansive and dangerous tradition of the poet who boldly seeks Rimbaud’s goal to change life’ through his art.” Explaining his method, Smith notes that By approaching Lawrence Ferlinghetti as the contemporary poet-prophet of engagement and wonder we can more truly understand both his methods and his multi-achievement as: oral poet, poet of the streets, super realist, actualist of the public nightmare, political poet, poetry-and-jazz poet, bohemian poet, painter-poet, absurd expressionist dramatist, avant-garde novelist, anti-Art poet, and, finally, visionary poet of consciousness.”
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Cultural Writing. This new book by the publisher of Bottom Dog Press is a memoir of a midwest town and family, a time and place, and a life. "It is Smith's simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes his MILLDUST AND ROSES such a sweet, kind, modest, touching, and unassuming book" -- David Budbill."MILLDUST AND ROSES is a beautiful tapestry, the substance of which describes an Ohio Valley working-class family from the mid-century onward" -- Holly Beye.
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English and humanities educator
Smith, Larry Rae was born on February 11, 1943 in Mingo Junction, Ohio, United States. Son of Delbert Ross and Jean Rae (Putnam) Smith.
Bachelor, Muskingum College, 1965. Master of Arts, Kent State University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Kent State University, 1974.
Teacher, Euclid (Ohio) Senior High School, 1965-1968; instructor, Kent (Ohio) State University, 1968-1970; instructor Firelands College, Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio., 1970-1975; assistant professor, Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio., 1976-1980; associate professor, Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio., 1980-1984; professor, Firelands College Bowling Green U., Huron, since 1984. Fulbright lecturer U. Catania, Italy, 1980-1981. Editor, public Bottom Dog Press, Inc., Huron.
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(A RIVER REMAINS: POEMS by Larry Smith)
(Biography of Kenneth Patchen)
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Board of directors Firelands United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, since 1987. Member Poets and Writers Inc., Firelands Writing Center (board directors), Voices for Peace.
Married A. Ann Zaben, July 3, 1965. Children: Laura, Brian, Suzanne.