Research Catalog

Title

The selected poems of Kenneth Patchen.

Author

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

Publication

• New York : New Directions, [1957]
• ©1957

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xii, 145 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.

Series Statement

• New Classics series; NC 12
• NC12

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1957.

Note

• Publication date from Carruth.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "Third printing, enlarged edition" -- title page verso.
• "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Carruth, H. New Directions reader
• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
• Morgan, R.G. Kenneth Patchen

Provenance (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-1466 annotated: in graphite, on flyleaf: "List some titles".

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-1466 & Berg Coll 22-1467 bound in publishers' tan cloth binding; both copies with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig.

Contents

• As she was thus alone in the clear moonlight -- And what with the blunders -- These unreturning destinies -- Let us have madness -- We leave you pleasure -- Do the dead know what time it is? -- The snow is deep on the ground -- The reason for skylarks -- She knows it's raining -- I feel drunk all the time -- I don't want to startle you -- The rites of darkness -- 'O firey river' -- The origin of baseball -- The grand palace of Versailles -- Irkalla's white caves -- We must be slow -- The wolf of winter -- The billion freedoms -- Fall of the evening star -- The fox -- Instructions for angels -- A temple -- She had concealed him in a deep dark cave -- The hangman's great hands -- The forms of knowledge -- The stars go to sleep so peacefully -- The character of love seen as a search for the lost -- Continuation of the landscape -- 'For losing her love all would I profane' -- 'As we are so wonderfully done...' -- He was alone (as in reality) -- My generation reading the newspaper
• For the mother of my mother's mother -- Behold, one of several little Christs -- Written after reading an item in the paper about a young lady who went mad upon forsaking her lover. He is here assumed to speak -- 'For whose adornment' -- 'Of the same beauty were stars made' -- To a certain section of our population -- May I ask you a question, Mr. Youngstown Sheet & Tube? -- The climate of war -- The impatient explorer -- Street corner college -- Credit to paradise -- Birthday greetings for W.C.(hurchill) and his pals -- The cloth of the tempest -- Have you killed your man for today? -- Nice day for a lynching -- Fog -- 23rd Street runs into heaven -- There is one who watches -- Can the harp shoot through its propellers? -- Eve of St. Agony, or, The middleclass was sitting on its fat -- 'There is nothing false in thee' -- 'Rest, heart of the tired world' -- How God was made -- Pastoral -- Now I went down to the ringside and little Henry Armstrong was there
• Boxers hit harder when women are around -- The poor child with the hooked hands -- Death will amuse them -- In memory of Kathleen -- The deer and the snake -- Religion is that I love you -- The soldier and the star -- The state of the nation -- All the bright foam of talk -- But the images of his former dreams... -- The figure motioned with its mangled hand towards the wall behind it -- Avarice and ambition only were the first builders of towns and founders of empire -- 'Be music, night' -- What is the beautiful? -- The dimensions of the morning -- "And when freedom is achieved..." -- The unfulfilling brightnesses -- Mohammed -- How to be an army -- Gautama in the deer park at Benares -- The man with the golden Adam's apple -- 'O my darling troubles heaven...' -- The lions of fire shall have their hunting -- A vision for the people of America -- The murder of two men by a young kid wearing lemon-colored gloves -- Red wine and yellow hair -- The new being -- A plate of steaming fish
• The lute in the attic -- The orange bears -- If a poem can be headed into its proper current -- 'Do me that love' -- Fog over the sea and the sun going down -- A pile of rusty beer cans -- Poor Gorrel -- For Miriam -- Beautiful you are -- What there is -- All is safe... -- Lonesome boy blues -- But of life? -- The unanswering correspondences -- Limpidity of silences -- So be it -- The everlasting contenders -- What splendid birthdays -- Always another viewpoint -- A trueblue gentleman -- Where every prospect -- The constant bridegrooms -- The unreturning hosts -- Folly of clowns -- All the flowery -- Lowellville Cemetery: twilight -- Little cannibal's bedtimesong -- Encounter at nightfall -- In order to -- Soon it will -- There are two -- Opening the window -- It takes few kinds -- To be charmed -- Moon "continued" -- The great sled-makers -- Not many kingdoms left -- Often was it -- The cowboy who went to college -- The little man with wooden hair -- The tame streetcar conductor
• The careless little spy -- The forgetful little commuter -- The man who was shorter than himself -- The little man who saw a grass -- The celery-flute player -- I went to the city -- One who hopes -- Only cherries? -- All the roary night -- How come? -- The peaceful lier -- And with the sorrows of this joyousness.

Call Number

C-11 1916

OCLC

1001869446

Author

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, author, illustrator.

Title

The selected poems of Kenneth Patchen.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, [1957]

Copyright Date

©1957

Edition

Enlarged edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Classics series; NC 12

NC12

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 234

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 61

Morgan, R.G. Kenneth Patchen, A10b

Provenance

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1466 annotated: in graphite, on flyleaf: "List some titles". NN

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1466 & Berg Coll 22-1467 bound in publishers' tan cloth binding; both copies with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1466 & Berg Coll 22-1467 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

C-11 1916

Berg Coll 22-1466

Berg Coll 22-1467