Day #44 – Death Of An Unpopular Poet
The inspiration for this song, as mentioned by Jimmy in his Directed By Delaney interview, was a writer named Kenneth Patchen, an American novelist and poet. He died in 1972, and it seems like Jimmy was inspired by his being a relatively unknown author who died fairly young. In fact, Patchen was sixty years old at his death and had published several books on poetry and a few novels, but he was a man who also had experimented with Jazz music as well as photography and painting. A real Renaissance type of man, and what I have found out about him could go on for days.