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Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen

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About Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and working in a factory. He enjoyed publishing in his school newspaper, kept a diary from the age of twelve, and began reading Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Herman Melville. After high school, he moved to Wisconsin and attended Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin.

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State Of The Nation

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Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves

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as I opened the window

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Lonesome Boy Blues

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Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?

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I Went To The City

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The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves

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The Lute In The Attic

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Four Blues Poems: "There's a Place" / They Won't Let You In There / A Sigh is A Little Altered/ The Lonesome Boy Blues

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Limericks

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