Kenneth Patchen's experimentation w...

Kenneth Patchen's experimentation with narrative technique and his attention to the expressive possibilities of typographical variation anticipate Chicago Review's later interests in metafiction and conglomerated poetry (while it also contrasts with realist writers like James T Farrell, whose work was included in the first volume) These interests, along with his politically-engaged, apocalyptic vision, also endeared Patchen to the Beats. on the subject of his death in 1972, City Lights imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers Theater held a memorial reading in Patchen's honor; it was chronicled by way of editor Richard Hack in the Spring