intro to we meet, a collection of kenneth patchen's poetry:
Poem For KP
by Devendra banhart
The Silver Deer has appeared,
it’s presenting itself,
its eyes are everyland,
its mouth milks a funny-kinda-heaven,
and knows the POEM can make the flame extinguish itself,
and knows the POEM is the circle surrounding all circles,
and it wants us to stop coddling the grumpy raisin,
to stop bobbing for beans in the house of “mama i can’t leave this
body! but oh…!”
to stop pumping stones out of our lava-slits,
to welcome in the welcoming red thread, the lining,
the one who is reaching out to wherever the hell you are,
to not wait, to never wait again.
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"The first thing one would remark on meeting Kenneth Patchen is that he is the living symbol of protest." ~Henry Miller
...familiar
READ: Kenneth Patchen's bio
AND: Poems
(thx nat)
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excerpt from devendra's intro: Like confused clouds illuminating whatever the opposite of a shadow is, Patchen’s painted-poems and written drawings highlight a rogue sensibility within our humanity. Every emotion, every joke, every creation jostles us. To experience his work is to discover a peculiar sort of divinity. Heed the wisdom of the first poem in this collection, “to understand one must begin somewhere….” Welcome!
so many loves at once!
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