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Bureau of Public Secrets Website Posts New Kenneth Rexroth EssaysBureau of Public Secrets Website Posts New Kenneth Rexroth Essays "There is a lot of bullshit in Lawrence, Miller, or Patchen --
MARK TWAIN POETRY, REGENERATION, AND D.H. LAWRENCE "Lawrence did not try to mislead himself with false promises, imaginary guarantees... Communion and oblivion, sex and death, the mystery can be revealed -- but it can be revealed only as totally inexplicable. Lawrence never succumbed to the temptation to try to do more. He succeeded in what he KENNETH PATCHEN, NATURALIST OF THE PUBLIC NIGHTMARE "Patchen has gone back to the world of Edward Lear and interpreted it in terms of the modern sensibility of the disengaged, the modern comic horrors of le monde concentrationnaire. It is as if, not a slick New Yorker * * * The Bureau of Public Secrets website features "The Joy of Revolution" and other writings by Ken Knabb (recently collected in the book Public Secrets); Knabb's translations from the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France); and the Rexroth Archive (texts by and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth). BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS |
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