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May 28, 2009 · During the darkest days of the Great Depression, artist Alice Neel painted a surreal portrait of her friend, the poet Kenneth Fearing. In it, the gaunt 33-year-old stares out through owl-rimmed glasses, eye sockets hollow from exhaustion and hunger, a gaping hole in his chest.
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.
The poems literalize Eliot’s remarks on the impersonality of the poet, and traces of someone named “Kenneth Fearing” are nearly impossible to localize. Multifocused and decentered, all his writing frames an elaborate disappearing act.
Feb 27, 2015 · Kenneth Fearing, the poet, who died last year, painted in the ’30s on the night that his first child was born. It is of another era; Third Avenue El in the background; everything in a blue haze.
Aug 23, 2021 · The poetry of Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961) is embroiled in—and one is tempted to say devoted to—that range of human feelings that begin with d: depression, dejection, dismay, disgust, desperation, despair.
obsession with fear, defeat and confusion. From a young revolu tionary's disgust with the frustrated lives of common men, he has moved to a vision of a society powerless to save itself from corruption and soul's death. "White mice," he writes in one of the later volumes White mice, running mazes in behavior tests, have never displayed more
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Kenneth Fearing is considered a minor poet of the 1920s and 30s New York circle of proletarian poets. At his peak, he published a variety of poems that captured the alienating powers of modern society.
