Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Village Poets
Djuna Barnes, artist, illustrator, journalist, and author, best known for Nightwood (1936), a classic of lesbian fiction, lived for 40 years on Patchin Place where her neighbors included ee cummings. The story goes that the poet would poke his head into the stairwell of the reclusive Djuna’s building and shout: “Are you alive, Djuna?” Barnes knew James Joyce when she was in Paris between the wars and he gifted her an annotated manuscript of Ulysses.
