Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen

"To experience Patchen's work is to discover a peculiar sort of divinity." -- Devendra Banhart
"Patchen is a writer of superb daring and invention, the author of a few passages which are comparable to the most intuitively beautiful writing ever done." -- James Dickey
"Kenneth Patchen is one of the very few people over thirty who can and should be believed. The contemporary forces of assault should know that his voice was raised, and his sword was bright at the walls of darkness when almost all other American poets were still and tamed." -- Kenneth Rexroth
"In these fierce and hurrying years, Patchen's apocalyptic prophecies have come and are coming all too true. Listen if there is still time, to the words of this man! 'Peace or Perish: Mercy Truth Freedom Peace Peace Peace Peace Love Kindness Trust or All Men Are Doomed.'" -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"There is more verve and more variety in Patchen’s work than in any other living American poet’s entire output. No more ringing protests and no more passionate love poems have been written in our time. This book should win the acclaim that he so well merits and it should establish him not only as a remarkable poet but also a great one." -- Louis Untermeyer
"Patchen is the only major poet—and prose writer if it comes to that—who is still to be plumbed, explored, or really understood. Rich the prospect for him, and for us!" -- Peter Yates