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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. Around this time, Patchen published a sonnet, "Permanence," in...read more

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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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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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as i opened the window

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the lute in the attic

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and with the sorrows of this joyousness

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the wolf of winter

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four blues poems

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beautiful you are

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23rd street runs into heaven

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the orange bears

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and what with the blunders

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the origin of baseball

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nice day for a lynching

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the reason for skylarks

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little birds sit on your shoulder

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oh now the drenched land wakes

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give you a lantern

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the everlasting contenders

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red wine and yellow hair

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where shall we walk

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as beautiful as the hands of the winter tree

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o my darling troubles heaven

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the lions of fire shall have their hunting

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from my high love

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we go out together

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while the sun still spends his fabulous money

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as we are so wonderfully done with each other

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she is the prettiest of creatures

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fall of the evening star

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a lament for the unlasting joys

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no i do not deal with angels

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o my love the pretty towns

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she had concealed him

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religion is that i love you

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as she was this alone

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the sea is awash with roses

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for losing her love

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the character of love seen as a search for the lost

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as frothing wounds of roses

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the snow is deep on the ground

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the evolution of the hippopotamus

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a case of unmistakable identity

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how the slingshot came to be invented

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chicken fried in honey

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the professional son

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the tale of rosiebotham

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vorrei che i suoi occhi

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