Mexico City Blues
$22.94
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
Kerouac’s famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics
‘I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday’
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac’s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ‘choruses’, it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241388945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241388945 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 189g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature.
A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature. – Allen GinsbergA jazz poet. 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
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called ‘spontaneous prose’. He used this technique to record the life of the American ‘traveler’ and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
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