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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. "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 TribuneProduct Identifiers
PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802130607
ISBN-139780802130600
eBay Product ID (ePID)87817847
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Book TitleMexico City Blues : 242 Choruses
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicGeneral, American / General
GenrePoetry
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.1 oz.
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.8 in
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