Larry Smith was the general editor on this book edited by AllenFrost for Bottom Dog Press. He also wrote the Foreword and compiled the biographies for the correspondents. The book includes the selected correspondence of Kenneth Patchen with letters from and to:

Harvey Breit - E.E. Cummings - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin- Henry Miller - Miriam Patchen - Kenneth Rexroth -Wallace Stevens - Dylan Thomas - Leon Trotsky - Amos Wilder - Thomas Wolfe - Jasper Wood, and many others others

With 30 illustrations & photos from the correspondents:

  "Reading Patchen is a profound literary experience, an absolute delighting in humanity’s possibilities yet also a despondence, sometimes even anger, over our shortcomings.  These themes play themselves out here in Patchen’s impassioned letters to such friends and colleagues as Henry Miller, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, et. al.  To read this correspondence is to be astonished by Patchen’s insatiable quest for all that is good in life, a quest that led him from proletarianism to concretism to jazz to painted poems.  Embrace hope, ye who enter here."  –Eckhard Gerdes, editor of Journal of Experimental Fiction