On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 3:40:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
> >
> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> > The Snow Is Deep on the Ground, by Kenneth Patchen
>
> > The snow is deep on the ground.
> > Always the light falls
> > Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
> > [...]
>
> > (read by Kenneth Patchen)
>
> > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-snow-is-deep-on-ground-kenneth.html
>
> > #pennyspoems
> The fascinating story of Kenneth Patchen's hand painted covers for his poetry books:
>
> https://poets.org/text/kenneth-patchens-painted-poems
>
> "In 1942, unable to pay for an expensive fine-print edition of his book The Dark Kingdom, Patchen designed and painted his own book covers and published a limited edition of 75 copies. This launched a series of nine titles that became known as the "painted books," all with covers individually decorated by Patchen with original paintings and holograph colophons, totaling 956 cover paintings. Other titles in this series were Red Wine & Yellow Hair, Fables and Other Little Tales, and Hurrah for Anything. Patchen went on to make a series of silk-screened poems printed on handmade Japanese paper.
>
> "Like Picasso," wrote Henry Miller in 1946 of his friend Patchen, "he makes use of everything. The innovator and initiator are strong in him....One is no longer looking at a dead, printed book but at something alive and breathing, something which looks back at you with equal astonishment. Novelty is employed not as seduction but like the stern fist of the Zen master to awaken and arouse the consciousness of the reader."

K.P. gets more impressive the more his history is explored...!!

General-Zod wrote:

> On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 3:40:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> >
>> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> > The Snow Is Deep on the Ground, by Kenneth Patchen
>>
>> > The snow is deep on the ground.
>> > Always the light falls
>> > Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
>> > [...]
>>
>> > (read by Kenneth Patchen)
>>
>> > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-snow-is-deep-on-ground-kenneth.html
>>
>> > #pennyspoems
>> The fascinating story of Kenneth Patchen's hand painted covers for his poetry books:
>>
>> https://poets.org/text/kenneth-patchens-painted-poems
>>
>> "In 1942, unable to pay for an expensive fine-print edition of his book The Dark Kingdom, Patchen designed and painted his own book covers and published a limited edition of 75 copies. This launched a series of nine titles that became known as the "painted books," all with covers individually decorated by Patchen with original paintings and holograph colophons, totaling 956 cover paintings. Other titles in this series were Red Wine & Yellow Hair, Fables and Other Little Tales, and Hurrah for Anything. Patchen went on to make a series of silk-screened poems printed on handmade Japanese paper.
>>
>> "Like Picasso," wrote Henry Miller in 1946 of his friend Patchen, "he makes use of everything. The innovator and initiator are strong in him....One is no longer looking at a dead, printed book but at something alive and breathing, something which looks back at you with equal astonishment. Novelty is employed not as seduction but like the stern fist of the Zen master to awaken and arouse the consciousness of the reader."

> K.P. gets more impressive the more his history is explored...!!

Good afternoon, agreed.