Reel contains poems read to music and lengthy segments of music only. Poems include "Letter to Ray Johnson" and "A Fifteen-Hundred Poem." Original box is addressed to J.P. Pickens, a musician and ...

She is the prettiest of creatures -- Fall of the evening star -- She had concealed him -- O my love the pretty towns -- Creation -- The character of love seen as a search -- Religion is that I love ...

BEFORE THE BRAVE—Kenneth Patchen —Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT—Nathalia Crane —Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again ...

Kenneth Patchen has been called the Yankee Doodle Blake of dissident U.S. poetry from the Depression era, the War Years, on into the Beat Generation. Born into the steel-mill blasts of Youngstown Ohio ...