Bottom Dog Press, Inc.
813 Seneca Ave.
Huron, OH 44839
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Thanks to our editors, we have done several books by and about artist-author Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972). In addition we are glad to carry some of the recent books from Jonathan Clark and his Artichoke Press and books from good deed rain press by Allen Frost.
Other Kenneth Patchen Links
Kenneth Patchen Homepage(somewhat dated)
Tracing the Places of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen
(Images and biography)
Other Patchen Books on Amazon Books
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The Definitive biography of
American author and artist.
322 pages, 40 photos, revised and expanded 2nd edition, hardcover with dust jacket.
Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen
Edited and Introduction by Allen Frost
Foreword by Larry Smith
With 30 illustrations & photos from the correspondents:
Harvey Breit - E.E. Cummings - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin- Henry Miller - Miriam Patchen - Kenneth Rexroth -Wallace Stevens - Dylan Thomas - Leon Trotsky - Amos Wilder - Thomas Wolfe - Jasper Wood, and many others others
"Reading Patchen is a profound literary experience, an absolute delighting in humanity’s possibilities yet also a despondence, sometimes even anger, over our shortcomings. These themes play themselves out here in Patchen’s impassioned letters to such friends and colleagues as Henry Miller, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, et. al. To read this correspondence is to be astonished by Patchen’s insatiable quest for all that is good in life, a quest that led him from proletarianism to concretism to jazz to painted poems. Embrace hope, ye who enter here." –Eckhard Gerdes, editor of Journal of Experimental Fiction
In perfect bound ($18) and hard cover with dustjacket ($28)
See Hard Cover Order below.
Review in New York Journal of Books
Review in England's ShadowTrain by Ian Seed
Nominated for a New York Book Show Award
Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen
Edited and Introduction by Allen Frost
Foreword by Larry Smith
With 30 illustrations & photos from the correspondents:
Harvey Breit - E.E. Cummings - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin- Henry Miller - Miriam Patchen - Kenneth Rexroth -Wallace Stevens - Dylan Thomas - Leon Trotsky - Amos Wilder - Thomas Wolfe - Jasper Wood, and many others others
Awash with Roses: Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen with biographical introduction.
Revised re-issue of this classic collection of Kenneth Patchen's love poems along with the story of the life of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen told by biographer, Larry Smith
100 love poems by this American poet rebel romantic.
Kenneth Patchen is the author of 38 books of poetry, fiction, and art as well as one of the finest performers of poetry-jazz. This book is a thing of beauty.
"The reissue of his love poems testifies to his talents and perhaps meets the current need to cherish the beauty of life, love, and mankind. . . . Today, with political and economic unrest, with individual expression suppressed in many parts of the world, humankind yearns for a soothing of souls." from New York Journal Book Review
Click for full Review of Re-Issue in New York Journal Book Reviewby Robert Sund (Author), Allen Frost (Editor),
Paul Piper (Editor), Fred Sodt (Editor-designer)
The poet and artist Robert Sund is a Pacific Northwest legend.
This book is an inspired biography comprised of stories, memories, poetry, photography and artwork by those who knew him. The book is also filled with previously unpublished and uncollected works by Sund. A tribute to a life committed to poetry, calligraphy, art and friendship with writers such as William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, and a host of Pacific Northwest poets and artists.
240 pg. published by Good Deed Rains....$20
An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen
Forward by Richar Peek; Essay by Jonathan Clark
This book documents the 2011 exhibition of the poet-artiist graphic work held in his centennial year at the University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library. At the same time it celebrates Patchen's artisitc achievement through this generous selection of images illuminating his life, his work, and his world.
Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Patchen
go with the flow:
A Tribute to Clyde Sanborn
Ed. Allen Frost
While editing the tribute book to poet Robert Sund (A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven, 2016) I heard about "the other poet" in La Conner, Washington, Clyde Sanborn. Knowing nothing about him except that he lived and died like Li Po, I embarked on a journey to learn whatever I could. This tribute book is a rare treasury filled with memories, interviews, photos, as well as Clyde's handwritten poems and paintings. In the tradition of Li Po, Clyde Sanborn was our very own Zen poet, artist and river drifter. Not so long ago, he was a well known fixture in La Conner, but his story has never been told until now. This book provides an adventurous, inspired look at the struggle of an illuminated artist. It will be of interest to everyone else out there in the same boat. - Allen Frost
"Writing in good spirit with Zen wit and Buddhist compassion, Sanborn is an original and a challenge to our American values. While Go with the Flow: A Tribute of Clyde Sanborn preserves a lost poet and artist, it also honors a way of living and a way of writing that reminds us to be true to ourselves. One must thank editor Allen Frost and Good Deed Rain Press for this gift." -New York Journal of Books
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813 Seneca Ave.
Huron, OH 44839
ph: 4196021556
fax: 419-616-3966
alt: 419-602-1556
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