Table of Contents
CONTENTS
"The Sea Is Awash With Roses" (Handwritten by Kenneth
Patchen)
Photo of Miriam and Kenneth Patchen (c. 1941, NYC)
"23rd Street Runs Into Heaven" (Handwritten by Kenneth
Patchen)
v Contents
x Photo of Miriam and Kenneth Patchen (c. 1952,San Francisco)
Introduction:
1 A Chronology of Quotations
7 Kenneth and Miriam: When the Wreath Touches
the Heart, Biographical Introduction by Larry Smith
EARLY WRITINGS (1928-1932)
59 Permanence
60 Solus
61 Inheritance
63 Snow Is Falling
64 "Since the Tiny Yellow Rose"
BEFORE THE BRAVE (1936)
65 The Other Side: The Green Home
66 A World Whose Sun Retreats Before the Brave
FIRST WILL AND TESTAMENT (1939)
67 "As Frothing Wounds of Roses"
68 Fall of the Evening Star
69 She Had Concealed Him in a Deep Cave...
70 The Fox
71 As She Was Thus Alone in the Clear Moonlight...
72 And What with the Blunders...
74 The Character of Love Sees as a Search for the Lost
76 In Memory of Kathleen
77 Religion Is that I Love You
78 Plow Horses
79 23rd Street Runs into Heaven
80 From "Eight Early Poems"
80 "This Room Has Mystery"
80 "Your Name Includes the Shadow Flight of Birds"
80 "I Know the Hair, Tissue, Skin"
81 "It Is a Lonely Walk Into the Mind's Retreat"
82 Fragment from "A Schoolboy's Odyssey"
82 The Geography of Music
83 At the New Year
84 Can the Harp Shoot Through Its Propellers?
85 From: Stayed No Longer in the Place Than
to Hire a Guide for the Next Stage
86 In Judgement of the Leaf
87 From: Harrowed by the Apprehensions He Resolved to
Commit Himself to the Mercy of the Storm
THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT (1941)
88 From: Poem of the Word
THE TEETH OF THE LION (1942)
89 "Do I Not Deal with Angels"
90 "O My Love the Pretty Towns"
THE DARK KINGDOM (1942)
91 "The Sea Is Awash with Roses O They Blow"
92 "As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other"
93 "There Is Nothing False in Thee"
94 "From My High Love I Look at That Poor World There"
95 "For Losing Her Love All Would I Profane"
96 "We Go Out Together into the Staring Town"
97 Like a Mourningless Child
98 "I Suggest That this Day Be Made Holy"
99 Written After Reading an Item in the Paper about a Young
Lady Who Went Mad Upon Forsaking Her Lover. He Is Here Assumed to Speak
CLOTH OF THE TEMPEST (1943)
100 Mirru
101 "The Snow Is Deep on the Ground"
102 "She Is the Prettiest of Creatures"
103 "O My Darling Troubles Heaven with Her Loveliness"
103 "Of the Same Beauty Were Stars Made"
104 I Sent a Mental to My Love
105 "She Knows It's Raining and My Room Is Warm"
106 "For Whose Adornment"
107 "Be Music, Night"
108 To Say If You Love Someone
109 For the Mother of My Mother's Mother
AN ASTONISHED EYE LOOKS OUT OF THE AIR (1945)
110 "The Stars Go to Sleep So Peacefully"
111 This Summer Day
PICTURES OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
112 "O My Dearest"
113 "I'd Want Her Eyes to Fill with Wonder"
114 Yellow Stones—Sea of Majestic Doves—
Lovers under Green Parasols—Hilarkeleddi, Everybody Makes Love When I Say Ready!...
115 "O Sleeping Falls the Maiden Snow"
116 All the Roses of the World
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN (1946)
117 "Peace in This Green Field"
SLEEPERS AWAKE ON THE PRECIPICE (1946)
118 "What a Stack of Pretties"
119 Seven Beautiful Things Made More Beautiful
By Appearing in This Way
RED WINE AND YELLOW HAIR (1949)
120 Hovenweep
122 Weekend Bathers
123 "O When I Take My Love Out Walking"
124 If a Poem Can Be Headed into Its Proper Current
Someone Will Take It within His Heart to the Power and Beauty of Everybody
126 "Do Me That Love"
ORCHARDS, THRONES & CARAVANS (1952)
127 "As Beautiful as the Hands"
128 Folly of Clowns
129 All the Flowery
130 Beautiful You Are
131 What There Is
132 The Everlasting Contenders
THE FAMOUS BOATING PARTY (1954)
133 Not Many Kingdoms Left
134 Delighted with Bluepink
135 Her Talents...Of
136 Court of First Appeal
WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER (1957)
137 "Little Birds Sit on Your Shoulder"
138 "Give You a Lantern"
138 The Great Birds
139 "O She Is a Lovely-Often as Every Day"
140 When We Were Here Together
141 "O Now the Drenched Land Wakes"
142 "Who'll That Be"
142 "Wide, Wide in the Rose's Side"
HURRAH FOR ANYTHING (1957)
143 It Is the Hour
144 Prominent Couple Believed Permanently Stuck to Porch
145 Like I Told You
POEMSCAPES (1958)
146 Poemscape I
147 Poemscape VIII
148 Poemscape IX
149 Poemscape XX
BECAUSE IT IS (1960)
150 Because Everybody Looked So Friendly I Ran
151 Because My Hands Hear the Flowers Thinking
HALLELUJAH ANYWAY (1966)
152 Love Which Includes Poetry...
BUT EVEN SO (1968)
153 Go Loving
154 Caring Is the Only Daring
WONDERINGS (1971)
155 "O Honor the Bird"
156 "Binding the Quiet into Chalky Sheaves"
157 "O 'Listen' Is Like an Elephant"
158 The Moment
159 "Unless There Are Flowers"
160 "Who Are You"
161 "Glory Never Guesses"
162 "Everyman Is Me"
163 Kenneth Patchen: A Chronological Bibliography Chief Works
