caption death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality birth_date spouse genre image article_title name
patchen circa 1952 -lrb- by chester kessler -rrb- 8 january 1972 palo alto , california allen ginsberg , lawrence ferlinghetti , robert duncan niles , ohio e. e. cummings , walt whitman , william blake american 13 december 1911 miriam patchen american poetry kenneth patchen 1952.jpg kenneth patchen
 kenneth patchen
kenneth patchen

kenneth patchen -lrb- december 13 , 1911 -- january 8 , 1972 -rrb- was an american poet and novelist .
he experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting , drawing , and jazz music into his works , which were often compared with those of william blake and walt whitman .
patchen 's biographer wrote that he `` developed in his fabulous fables , love poems , and picture poems a deep yet modern mythology that conveys a sense of compassionate wonder amidst the world 's violence . ''
along with his friend and peer kenneth rexroth , he was a central influence over the san francisco renaissance and the beat generation .
