diane ackermans lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in antarctica and a professional nose in new york along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet earth kenneth patchen sets off on an allegorical journey of his own in which the far boundaries of love and murder madness and sex are sensually explored his is the tale of a disordered pilgrimage to h roivas heavenly savior in which the deranged responses of individuals point up the outer madness from which they derive in a more imaginative way that social protest generally allowslike camus kenneth patchen is anticool antihip antibeat