Tomorrow (december 13th) is the 97th anniversary of the birth of Kenneth Patchen. Let us all raise a glass for this man. Were my records not in storage I would throw the Folkways Love Poems side on the 'table and have a plain supper and be wonderful.
"A great deal has been said of the handless serpents
Which war has set loose in the gay milk of our heads
But because you braid your hair and taste like honey of heaven
We go together into town to buy wine and yellow candles."
(We Go Out Together In The Staring Town)
Peter Brotzmann has released some beautiful interpretations of Patchen's poems - 14 Love Poems (FMP) and Be Music Night with his Chicago Tentet (Okkadisk). Be Music... features Micheal Pearson reading the poems while the tentet shwrils around it. (Shwrils=weird typo that I have allowed to become a word. A volunteer, if you will.)
Here's a link to a Poetry Foundation blog entry on Patchen's sweet sweet painting poems. Love the little animals!
And finally, here is a Robert Creeley reading with a little shout out to KP.
May your Kenneth Patchen Birthday be sweet.
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