Editing Kenneth Patchen (section)

=== Peers ===
One of Patchen's biggest literary supporters was the novelist [[Henry Miller]], who wrote a long essay on Patchen, entitled ''Patchen: Man of Anger and Light'', in 1946.<ref>{{cite web |last = Miller |first = Henry |url = http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hreh0001/pal.html |title = Patchen: Man of Anger and Light |publisher = University of Minnesota Press|year = 1946 |access-date = April 3, 2012 }}</ref> In this essay, Miller wrote, "Patchen's pacifism is closely tied to what he sees as the loss of innocence in society, the corrupted human spirit, and is often expressed with animals. Such is the case with the forbidding 'The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting.'"<ref name=Miller /> Patchen also had a close, lifelong friendship with the poet [[E.E. Cummings]], which began when they were both living in Greenwich Village in the 1940s.<ref>Smith, L. R. (2000). p. 146.</ref> Patchen was also a close peer of the West Coast poet [[Kenneth Rexroth]], who shared Patchen's antiwar radicalism and his interest in combining poetry readings with jazz accompaniment. The two poets began a correspondence in the late 1940s and continued it in the 1950s. Rexroth encouraged the Patchens to move to San Francisco in the early 1950s.<ref name="Frost" /><ref>For a record of his correspondence with fellow writers and artists, see Allen Frost, ''Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen'', Bottom Dog Press.</ref>