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Kenneth Flexner Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media.
A well-known proletarian poet of the 1930s, a pulp magazine writer with several pseudonyms, and a Chicago and New York City publicity and editorial writer, Fearing turned to writing “psycho-thrillers” in the 1940s and 1950s. His fourth novel The Big Clock (1946) achieved much popularity and was released as a film by Paramount in 1947.
St. Agnes' Eve. By Kenneth Fearing. The dramatis personae include a fly-specked Monday evening, A cigar store with stagnant windows, Two crooked streets, Six policemen and Louie Glatz. Bass drums mumble and mutter an ominous portent. As Louie Glatz holds up the cigar store and backs out with. $14.92.
Dirge. By Kenneth Fearing. 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; bought his Carbide at 30 and it went to 29; had the favorite at Bowie but the track was slow—.
Feb 9, 2022 · Kenneth Fearing, “the drunken poet,” was a rising star among the Greenwich Village bohos in the 1920s, his forlorn presence a model for ‘starving artists’ for three different novelists and as subject for one of Alice Neel’s greatest portrait paintings of the 1930s.
The revolution that calls itself the Investigation had its rise in the theaters of communication, and now regularly parades its images across them, reiterates its gospel from them, daily and hourly marches through the corridors of every office, files into the living-room of every home.
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Fearing uses a series of paradoxes and contradictions to highlight the complexity and confusion of the post-war world. The newspapers, radio, movies, experts, politicians, and people are all described as being full of lies, suggesting a sense of mistrust and cynicism.
