This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

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.

Beauty as well as love is redemptive, and Patchen preaches a kind of moral salvation.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

'' Patchen is still the rebel, but he writes in a doleful, mournful tone.

Patchen is repeatedly preoccupied with death.

" 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.

He is also notable as a supporter of Kenneth Patchen, whose Outlaw of the Lowest Planet he published in 1946, with an introduction by David Gascoyne and a preface by Alex Comfort.

In 1975, Houghton wrote for her husband, actor / writer Ken Jenkins, a children's story, " The Wizard's Daughter ," which is collected in the book, Two Beastly Tales, illustrated by Joan Patchen, her husband's first wife.

However, once the Beats ' popularity grew, Patchen disliked being associated with them and was highly critical of their glorification of drug use and what he perceived to be a strong desire for media attention and fame.

One reviewer even accused Patchen of being " naive ," a common criticism aimed at his work, particularly regarding his fervent, pacifistic beliefs.

In The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) Patchen exploited this national sentiment by making his hero, Albert Budd, a private detective.

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.

In 1926, while Patchen was still a teenager, his younger sister Kathleen was struck and killed by an automobile.

On January 21, 2008, El Records released the record Rebel Poets in America, which included classic poetry readings with jazz accompaniment by both Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including such Patchen classics as " The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves " and " I Went To The City.

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

This forced Patchen to self-publish the book by subscription.

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.

* Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen, edited by Allen Frost, 2012

* Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen: Read by the Author, 1959, Folkways Records, FW09717 ( cover artwork by Jackson Pollock )

* Obituary of Miriam Patchen by Marcus Williamson in The Independent ( UK )

* Selected Poems & Paintings by Patchen, with Photographs and Biography

* " 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.

Dan Patch was a brown American bred Standardbred stallion sired by Joe Patchen, his dam Zelica was by Wilkesberry.

This was followed in quick succession by Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen, but it was the impact of the fourth volume, Howl and Other Poems ( 1956 ) by Allen Ginsberg that brought national attention to the author and publisher.

But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.

Rexroth and Patchen are far apart musically and poetically in their experiments.

( Downbeat did not mention the Los Angeles appearance of Patchen and the Sextet, although the engagement lasted over two months.

From the beginning of his career, Patchen has adopted an anti-intellectual approach to poetry.

Patchen envisions a Dark Kingdom which `` stands above the waters as a sentinel warning man of danger from his own kind ''.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

so during the period approximately from 1941 to 1946, Patchen often used private detective stories as a myth reference, and the `` private eye '' as a myth hero.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

Obviously, the `` private eye '' can have no more appeal for Patchen.

To fill the job of contemporary hero in 1955, Patchen needed someone else.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In order to write with authority either about musicians, or as a musician, Patchen would have to soft pedal his characteristically outspoken anger, and change ( at least for the purposes of this poetry ) from a revolutionary to a victim.

Henry Miller characterized Patchen as a `` man of anger and light ''.

-- and said it sharply, not as in the Patchen bit, but as an order -- so I stopped my hand and looked at him.

* 1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )