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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses

by Jack Kerouac

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Publisher Comments:

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
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ISBN:
9780802130600
Subtitle:
242 Choruses
Author:
Kerouac, Jack
Publisher:
Grove/Atlantic
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.
Copyright:
c195
Edition Number:
1st Evergreen ed.
Edition Description:
1st Grove Weidenfeld Evergreen ed.
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
January 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.22x5.41x.64 in. .64 lbs.
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