Results for "Kenneth Patchen & Peter Brotzmann"

Reads with Jazz In Canada & 14 Love Poems

by Clifford Allen
June 7, 2005

Despite the fact that beat poets and their bohemian kin were entranced and influenced by jazz rhythms and improvisation (and vice versa), it seems as though the music and word idioms remained quite separate throughout the beat-heyday of the late '50s and early '60s. Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), painter and poet who stood closer to Eliot than ...