Kenneth Patchen and American Mysticism

by Raymond Nelson

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807897355
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	07/21/2010
Edition description:	1
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

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It takes a very American brand of mysticism for a poet to survive as an innocent primitive in the materialist forests of North America. It killed Patchen in the end, but not his poetry. Raymond Nelson's book lays it out.—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Editorial Reviews

"It takes a very American brand of mysticism for a poet to survive as an innocent primitive in the materialist forests of North America. It killed Patchen in the end, but not his poetry. Raymond Nelson's book lays it out."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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