Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac
First print
IThis poem 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.
Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac
Format: First trade paperback printing in this edition
Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very small creases at bottom corners.
Product dimensions: n/a
Publishing Info: Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780802130600
Kerouac's 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. "I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway through a chorus to halfway into the next."
"A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature." - Allen Ginsberg
"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 Gerard Manley Hopkins of Dylan Thomas" - The New York Herald Tribune.JackKerouac.com, a site for scholars and students of Keouac
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