Before the Brave (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Kenneth Patchen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243382146 ISBN 13: 9780243382149

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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About the Author

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a poet, playwright, fiction and fable

writer, artist, and performer of poetry-jazz, working in the tradition

of engaged writing which he helped to forge in America. Producing

almost a book a year for 36 years, his work stands as an exposed girder

in the structure of American character and art. His friendships with

such writers as Amos Wilder, Lewis Mumford, James Laughlin, Henry

Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and

others 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 Leftist thinkers and artists in Greenwich Village's 1930s

and 40s. In the 1950s he moved to the West Coast where he created

artistic blends of poetry and art, and poetry and jazz. Finally crippled

with back pain during the last decade of his life, he created the

wonderful picture-poems. For four decades, on East and West Coast,

by the force of his own will and his native genius, Patchen molded a

life and art as one. With the loving support of his wife Miriam he

endured the pain and travail of years of struggle to recast an art based

on truth and striking beauty. His is one of the great stories of American

literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243382146
• ISBN 13: 9780243382149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 131