Larry Smith is a poet, novelist, critic, and the authorized biographer of Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America (Small Press Consortium, 2000). His video program, Kenneth [...]
Yes, there were coal mines, and steel mills, and factories. All of them grinding away at the edge of things — thin shudder of the earth that we lived with, echoing roar of river inside the hills. [...]