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Conrad Aiken '12, E. E. Cummings '15, Jose Garcia Villa, and Kenneth Patchen were some of the drawing cards that launched the quarterly on the way to becoming something more than an undergraduate effort...
...Landesman, 29. Said he: "Most of my friends are writers and artists and all of them are neurotic as hell. We decided there was a need for a magazine to explore the problems of the neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido the wife lets the husband chase her around...
...Wake sprang up in the fall of 1944 taking the place of the then deoment Advocate, featuring student contributions in its early issues but soon expanding to include such prominent writers as E.E. Cummings '15, Convad Aiken '11, Harry Levin '33, and Kenneth Patchen...
Some never-say-die spearheaders continue to bore the air along their accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...
Among the avantgardistes who ferment, sometimes germinally, at the thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...