
Kenneth Patchen. Cloth of the Tempest. 1943. First edition.
One of Kenneth Patchen's most celebrated wartime collections, blending lyric poetry, political conviction, and visionary imagination. Patchen's inventive fusion of text and image helped redefine the possibilities of poetic form and influenced generations of Beat and San Francisco Renaissance writers, including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Condition: Very good.