Description
An unforgettable, apocalyptic novel from a distinctly American prophet
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 still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic “reality,” The Journal of Albion Moonlight is an American monument to engagement.
Reviews
"More than seventy years on from its first publication, The Journal of Albion Moonlight remains as revolutionary and as pertinent as ever." — Ian Seed, PN Review
"This novel is quite possibly the book that made the biggest impression on me, ever." — Michael Berger, The Rumpus
"The Journal of Albion Moonlight is a work of unmistakable genius; in all of English literature it stands alone. Albion Moonlight is the most naked figure of a man I have encountered in all literature." — Henry Miller
Also By: Kenneth Patchen 
Selected Poems
E Book, 2015
This selection is drawn from ten earlier volumes by the poet who has been called "the most compelling force in American poetry since Whitman."Selected Poems
Paperback, 1998
This selection is drawn from ten earlier volumes by the poet who has been called "the most compelling force in American poetry since Whitman."
