Kenneth Patchen

[Otto]

Hello Richard,
I'm not quite sure if solace is the right word in my case, but reading "The
Journal of Albion Moonlight" at these troubled times indeed is good and
appropriate (as I'd posted a few days before 9/11).
We should talk about him on this list one day.

Otto

THE BOOK OF THE LIVING
(SYNCOPATED ECSTACY)
A review of The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
by Brian Pinsker

"Moonlight is an intensely anti-war allegory with comic existential
philosophy sprinkled throughout. Patchen's anti-nationalist, anti-class,
anti-racist sentiments come through strongly. There is a hilarious dialogue
between Albion and the army recruiting officer in which Albion says there is
no way he would ever hurt his own people, and that all of mankind are his
people."
http://www.outerdark.com/spleen1/albionmoonlight.html

>
> Hello fellow humans--
>
> I'm finding solace in the work of KP in these wicked times of ours.
>
> You may be comforted, too
>
> when delillo said every terrorist act was a raid on human consciousness, I
> wonder if he realized the weapon we have in poetry, poetry that is as
> unforgiving as it is compassionate.
>
>
> Bless
> Rich
>