The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214117
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do you know how angels learn to fly? What would you feed a green deer? Do you think a profound social message can be conveyed by a book that is comic in character? When Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece, The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer first appeared in 1945, these questions were asked on the dust jacket. They have never seemed more relevant. The hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey-a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer, written with what Diane DiPrima called Patchen's "tender silliness," should inspire a new generation of readers

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer written by Kenneth Patchen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer written by Kenneth Patchen and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? ... Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? .... Which do you think is more 'important' - a great poem, or a victory in a war? ... Do you think 'satire by hallucination' is a good description of Patchen's literary method? ... Do you agree that many 'normal' people are really spiritual cripples? ... Do you know how angels learn to fly? ... What would you feed a green deer? ... Do you think a profound social message can be conveyed by a book that is comic in character? ... Have you ever been really carefully examined by a cannibal? ... Have you ever read a nightmare? ... Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be really alive? ... Thirteen years ago these questions appeared on the dust-cover of the original New Directions edition of this most popular of Patchen's prose works. Have your answers changed?" --

Author : Bernard Wolfe
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1940436257
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer written by Bernard Wolfe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary–bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill–grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: "I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output."

Author : Bernard Wolfe
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1940436265
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer written by Bernard Wolfe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary–bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill–grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: "I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output."

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201445
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Albion Moonlight written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201476
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleepers Awake written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonderings written by Kenneth Patchen and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in these pages the extraordinary rage and power of Patchen's imagination, and the virtuosity of his technique, were never more striking-their impact is indeed breathtaking. His new universe is exciting and spirit-cleansing. the light streaming from the hand and heart of this poet-artist illuminates the darkness, the sordid and confused pettiness of our day-to-day existence.

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201469
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1957 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of humor, protest, love and wonder, by one of America's most original voices.

Author : Ralph T. Cook
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810826212
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Lights Books written by Ralph T. Cook and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1955, City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco has published over 230 titles and its 1,500 authors include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Hilda Doolittle, Allen Ginsberg, Goethe, Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, and Karl Marx. Provides complete information on all City Lights publications from 1955 through 1990.