Book of Blues Paperback - 1995
by Jack Kerouac; Introduction by Robert Creeley
Although he is best known as a writer of prose, Jack Kerouac was an important poet, his work described by Michael McClure as "startling in its majesty and comedy and gentleness and vision". These eight extended poems, composed between 1954 and 1961, offer exuberant forays into language and consciousness that combine rich imagery, complex internal rhythms, and a reverent attentiveness to the moments.
Summary
"In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." Jack Kerouac
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- Title Book of Blues
- Author Jack Kerouac; Introduction by Robert Creeley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition later printing
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1995-09-01
- ISBN 9780140587005 / 0140587004
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Beat generation - Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94045902
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/1995, Page 33
- Library Journal, 09/15/1995, Page 72
- Publishers Weekly, 08/28/1995, Page 108
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