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Kenneth Patchen

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Kenneth Patchen On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and working in a factory. He enjoyed publishing in his school newspaper, kept a diary from the age of twelve, and began reading Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Herman Melville. After high school, he moved to Wisconsin and attended Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin.

Top songs

  1. State Of The Nation
  2. Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves
  3. as I opened the window
  4. Lonesome Boy Blues
  5. Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?
  6. I Went To The City
  7. The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves
  8. The Lute In The Attic
  9. Four Blues Poems: "There's a Place" / They Won't Let You In There / A Sigh is A Little Altered/ The Lonesome Boy Blues
  10. Limericks
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  1. And With The Sorrows Of This Joyousness
  2. Be Music, Night
  3. P. 11-12 May 19
  4. Glory, Glory Speeches from Don't Look Now
  5. The State Of The Nation
  6. P. 1-2 May 2
  7. The Fox
  8. Four Song Poems: "The Everlasting Contenders" / Do I Not Deal with the Angels / The Sea is Awash with Roses / Not Many Kingdoms Left
  9. And What With The Blunders
  10. The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing...
  11. The Wolf Of Winter
  12. The Origin Of Baseball
  13. 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven
  14. P. 13 June 5
  15. In Order To
  16. Nice Day For A Lynching
  17. P. 11 May 18
  18. The Orange Bears
  19. Beautiful You Are
  20. P. 14-15 June 6
  21. P. 213-215 Aug. 7
  22. Four Blues Poems: "There's a Place" / They Won't Let You In There / A Sigh is A Little Altered/ The Lonesome Boy Blues
  23. So Be It
  24. Four Blues Poems
  25. P. 17 June 14
  26. The Reason For Skylarks
  27. Pastoral
  28. The Everlasting Contenders
  29. Red Wine And Yellow Hair
  30. The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting
  31. Where Shall We Walk
  32. The Man With The Golden Adam's Apple
  33. Little Birds Sit on Your Shoulder
  34. Give You a Lantern
  35. As Beautiful as the Hands of the Winter Tree
  36. P. 17 June 15
  37. P. 143 July 17
  38. Show Time (Soon It Will Be)
  39. P. 15-16 June 7
  40. Oh Now the Drenched Land Wakes
  41. P. 53 June 27
  42. While the Sun Still Spends his Fabulous Money
  43. Do The Dead Know What Time It Is
  44. O My Darling Troubles Heaven
  45. P. 134-135 July 6
  46. The Great Birds
  47. P. 135-136 July 16
  48. 312-313 Aug. 27
  49. P. 203-204 July 30
  50. P. 22-26, 32-33 June 19
  51. Glory, Glory
  52. No I Do Not Deal with Angels
  53. The Snow is Deep on the Ground
  54. P. 298-300
  55. As We Are So Wonderfully Done With Each Other
  56. She is the Prettiest of Creatures
  57. We Go Out Together
  58. Creation
  59. From My High Love
  60. P. 90-91 July 5
  61. O She is Lovely-Often
  62. Limmericks
  63. Fall of the Evening Star
  64. A Lament for the Unlasting Joys
  65. P. 167-171 June 30
  66. There’s a Place / They Won’t Let You in There / A Sigh Is Little Altered / The Lonesome Boy Blues
  67. The Sea is Awash with Roses
  68. As Frothing Wounds of Roses
  69. She Had Concealed Him
  70. The Murder Of Two Men By a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-Colored Gloves
  71. O My Love the Pretty Towns
  72. As She Was This Alone
  73. Religion is that I love You
  74. Four Song Poems: The Everlasting Contenders/Do I Not Deal With The Angels/The Sea Is Awash With Roses/Not Many Kingdoms Left
  75. The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost
  76. Do the Dead Know What Time It Is? Allyn Ferguson
  77. For Losing Her Love
  78. Four Blues Poems: There's A Place/They Won't Let You In There/A Sigh Is A Little Altered/The Lonesome Boy Blues
  79. And The Sorrows of this Joyousness
  80. The Lions Of Fire Shall Have Their Hunger
  81. Four Song Poems
  82. The Everlasting Contenders / Do I Not Deal with the Angels / The Sea Is Awash with Roses / Not Many Kingdoms Left
  83. Glory Glory
  84. Untitled
  85. The Sea Is Awash With Roses/Not Many Kingdoms Left
  86. Kenneth Patchen - Poemscapes: A) You Know You're All Nuts, B) Sunday, April 8
  87. Glory, Glory / Speeches from Don't Look Now
  88. The Evolution Of The Hippopotamus
  89. A Case Of Unmistakable Identity
  90. Kenneth Patchen - Selections From Hurrah forAnything

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