The journal of Albion moonlight
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New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Main Library - Adult
Fiction Patchen, K
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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English

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First published as a New Directions Paperbook No. 99 in 1961. Reissued as No. 1374 in 2017.
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"Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean "Tom o'Bedlam" ("By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end / Methinks it is no journey"), Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey to the furthest limits of love and murder, madness and sex. While on this disordered pilgrimage to H. Roivas (Heavenly Savior), various characters offer deranged responses, conveying an otherworldly, imaginative madness. A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was vigorously doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is an American monument to engagement by one of America's most prolific writers."--Publisher's description.

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