Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

Patchen's first book of poetry, Before the Brave, was published by Random House in 1936.

In October 2011 The Claudia Quintet, with guest vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann, released an album on Cuneiform Records of Patchen's poetry set to music written by Claudia leader John Hollenbeck.

Also, a collection of essays on Patchen's work was edited by Richard Morgan for the book Kenneth Patchen: A Collection of Essays ( 1977 ).

Also prior to the book's publication, Delmore Schwartz read the manuscript and claimed to be so offended by the controversial anti-war stance in the book that he persuaded Patchen's publisher, New Directions, against publishing it.

In 2011, Kelly's Cove Press published Kenneth Patchen: A Centennial Selection, edited by Patchen's friend Jonathan Clark, in celebration of the centenary of Patchen's birth.

* " Kenneth Patchen centennial: poetry that still resonates " by J. H. Miller, 12. 12. 11, at sfbg. com-An appreciation of Patchen's work with audio clips of him reading his work.

( This design was borrowed from Kenneth Patchen's An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air ( 1945 ), published by Oregon's Untide Press.

Art `` makings '' or pseudo-anthropological myths did not meet all of Patchen's requirements for a poetic frame of reference.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

This involves a shift in Patchen's attitude and it is a first step toward writing a new jazz poetry.

Laughlin's decision to publish Patchen's work started a relationship that would last for the remainder of both men's careers.

Patchen's Collected Poems was first published in 1969, just a few years prior to his death.

One of Patchen's biggest literary supporters was the novelist Henry Miller who wrote a long essay on Patchen, entitled Patchen: Man of Anger and Light in 1946.

In this essay, Miller wrote, " Patchen's pacifism is closely tied to what he sees as the loss of innocence in society, the corrupted human spirit, and is often expressed with animals.

Patchen was also close peers with the West Coast poet Kenneth Rexroth who shared Patchen's interest in combining poetry readings with jazz accompaniment.

In 1964 / 65, the English composer David Bedford set an extract from Patchen's 1948 poem " In Memory of Kathleen " to classical music for the piece A Dream of the Lost Seven Stars.

Patchen's work has received little attention from academic critics.

One can also find notable book reviews that provide a reasonably accurate gauge of the public response to Patchen's work when it was initially published.

For instance, Patchen biographer Larry Smith notes that " initial reception to Patchen's First Will & Testament was positive and strong.

Following this first negative review, Schwartz would remain one of Patchen's fiercest critics.

In response to Patchen's novel The Journal of Albion Moonlight ( 1941 ), prior to its publication, Henry Miller praised the work in the long essay Patchen: Man of Anger and Light which was published in book form in 1946.

In 1943, Patchen's Cloth of the Tempest received largely negative reviews.

" When Patchen recorded his jazz-poetry readings, one of the resulting albums drew praise from the poet John Ciardi who wrote that " Patchen's poetry is in many ways a natural for jazz accompaniment.

Patchen's most important volume, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, first published in 1968 also received largely positive reviews.

One reviewer from The New York Times called the book " a remarkable volume " and compared Patchen's work to Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and even to the Bible.

The human ' parietal eye fields ' and ' parietal reach region ', equivalent to LIP and MIP in the monkey, also appear to be organized in gaze-centered coordinates so that their goal-related activity is ' remapped ' when the eyes move.

In this house has hosted many important political figures and businessmen, and on property Kekkou Ioannidis often organized receptions and card games between industrialists and ship-owners, which at its peak decades of the 50, 60, 70 and 80 and are relaxed and entertained away from the eyes of the world and the paparazzi.

Additionally the group organized several sui-generis protest manifestations against liberal economic policy, including such acts as naked protests and sewing their eyes shut publicly.

This in turn gave the AOL service more value over the less organized " frontier " of the Internet, at least in the eyes of users new to the online scene at the time.

Adefutbol was still the official body in the eyes of FIFA and organized the national team in this period and additionally Colombian clubs did not enter the Copa Libertadores.

Eve ’ s corruption, in Puritan eyes, extended to all women, and justified marginalizing them within churches ' hierarchical structures.

Calvinists, Anabaptists and Mennonites, angry with their being persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church and opposed to the Catholic images of saints ( which in their eyes conflicted with the Second Commandment ), destroyed statues in hundreds of churches and monasteries throughout the Netherlands.

The Church of Christ Temple Lot believes that it is the only true church in the modern world and that all other churches are an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

In 1549, he joined the naval fleet of the first Portuguese Governor-General Tomé de Sousa ( 1502 – 1579 ), following a request by King D. João III to the Society of Jesus, to start the missionary work of converting the Amerindians, who were heathen in the eyes of the Catholic Church, of building churches and religious seminars, and of educating the colonists.

African American churches taught that all people were equal in God's eyes and viewed the doctrine of obedience to one's master taught in white churches as hypocritical.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

His eyes are steady anchors of the deepest brown.

The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders.

His light blue eyes, set deep within the face, are actively and continually looking.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Lord, love us, look at all the disconnected limbs floating hereabouts, like bloody feathers at that -- and all the eyes are talking and all the hair are moving and all the tongue are in all the cheek.

Cities and counties interested in industrial development would do well in the months ahead to keep their eyes peeled toward the 13 northwest Georgia counties that are members of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission.

There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

The aspects of physical development that catch the judges' eyes and which rightfully influence their decisions are symmetry and that hallmark of the true champion -- superior definition of the muscles.

If you are dreaming of a blue, shimmering pool right outside your living room windows, close your eyes firmly and fill in the picture with lots and lots of children, damp towels, squashed tubes of suntan oil and semi-inflated plastic toys.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to suppose that the nerves, between the inner brain and the eyes, carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers -- rather than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in required location.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

The eyes of the figure of the Nile are covered, perhaps either to symbolize the mystery of her source or to obscure from her sight the baroque facade of the Church of Sant' Agnese in Agone, the work of Bernini's rival, Borromini.

She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.