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Sunday, March 26 1972 Dear Jack - On Monday night, here in Marquette, there will be a poetry reading at Church Theatre, by local poets.

  For the occasion I have written a poem called Homage to Kenneth Patchen.  This Sunday morning I consulted Hoffman's Little Magazine Bibliography and found that you were one of his very earliest publishers in the pages of The Rebel Poet.
   I then checked the Conroy issue of The American Book Collector and note that in 1969 you had written an article called, Homage to Kenneth Patchen.
   I missed seeing any account of Patchen's death and know of it only by hearsay.  I once had a fine collection of his work, picked up mostly at remainder sales.  I searched for a long time to find his first published book; Before the Brave.  Now the only scrap I have left is the Poems of Humor and Protest published by City Lights.
   My bit of doggerel, which I have enclosed, closes with the theft from three sources.  The fourth and third lines from the end are taken from W. H. Auden's Elegy on W. B. Yeats.  The next to the last line is lifted from Henry Miller's pamphlet; Patchen:  Man of Anger