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ederwin's review
3.0
Among other things, Kenneth Patchen created many instance of illustrated poetry. I became aware of them through a comic by [a:Nick Thorkelson|3185214|Nick Thorkelson|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], available here on that artist's website.
There is really nothing else quite like them. For copyright reasons, I will not include any images here, but just do a google image search for "Kenneth Patchen" and you'll find some.
This books collects three collections that were published individually. One star is lost because the reproductions are in black and white. Unfortunately this was common. In an introduction [a:Jim Woodring|106115|Jim Woodring|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1241653295p2/106115.jpg] states that many people would be surprised to know that they were painted in color. Sad. They loose a lot in reduction to b/w.
Under the right management, he probably could have gained money and fame by producing T-shirts, posters, calendars and the like. Instead he was published in b/w poetry journals and books.
Like Woodring, I enjoy most the images with shorter texts, like "I proclaim this International Shut Your Big Fat Flapping Mouth Week" and "Come now, my child if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"
There is really nothing else quite like them. For copyright reasons, I will not include any images here, but just do a google image search for "Kenneth Patchen" and you'll find some.
This books collects three collections that were published individually. One star is lost because the reproductions are in black and white. Unfortunately this was common. In an introduction [a:Jim Woodring|106115|Jim Woodring|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1241653295p2/106115.jpg] states that many people would be surprised to know that they were painted in color. Sad. They loose a lot in reduction to b/w.
Under the right management, he probably could have gained money and fame by producing T-shirts, posters, calendars and the like. Instead he was published in b/w poetry journals and books.
Like Woodring, I enjoy most the images with shorter texts, like "I proclaim this International Shut Your Big Fat Flapping Mouth Week" and "Come now, my child if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"
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