Kenneth Patchen - Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. And What with the Blunders 2. The Origin of Baseball 3. The Wolf of Winter 4. The Fox 5. Nice Day for a Lynching 6. 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven 7. The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting 8. Red Wine and Yellow Hair 9. The Orange Bears 10. So Be It 11. The Everlasting Contenders 12. In Order to 13. The Man with the Golden Adam's Apple 14. The Reason for Skylarks 15. Pastoral 16. The State of the Nation 17. Be Music, Night 18. Show Time (Soon It Will Be) 19. Where Shall We Walk

Poet/novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a figure in New York City's Greenwich Village literary scene, which Folkways Records' founder Moses Asch documented. A jazz lover, Patchen often read poetry to jazz accompaniment, and he also collaborated with John Cage and Charles Mingus. In the '50s and '60s Folkways released three albums of the author reading his poems, but this one is something different. Released in 1972 as a memorial to Patchen, it features recordings of the author reading excerpts from one of his novels, The Journal of Albion Moonlight. He wrote the book in 1941, capturing in a surrealistic way an observer's reaction to the horror of World War II as it enveloped Europe in the summer of 1940. Patchen was a staunch pacifist, a distinctly minority position during World War II, but he won the admiration of San Francisco beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg, who cited him as an influence. The liner notes include a message from Patchen's widow, Miriam, as well as reproductions of various artifacts from the author's career.

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