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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses

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Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic.

Review:

"Kerouac calls himself a jazz poet. There is no doubt about his great sensitivity to language. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerald Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas." New York Herald Tribune

Synopsis:

Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books — including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" — were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues, " his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most distinctive contribution to music.

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ISBN:
9780802130600
Author:
Kerouac, Jack
Publisher:
Grove Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Mexico
Subject:
Beat generation
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Subject:
Mexico Poetry.
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Copyright:
c195
Edition Number:
1st Evergreen ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
19940131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.75 in 8 oz
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"Review" by , "Kerouac calls himself a jazz poet. There is no doubt about his great sensitivity to language. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerald Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas."
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Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books — including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" — were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues, " his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most distinctive contribution to music.
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