Book of Blues
by Kerouac, Jack, introduction by Robert Creeeley
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NY: Penguin Poets. VG PB. (1995). 1ST PRINTING. eight extended poems, "the form of blues choruses is lilmited by 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 onechorus into another,or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so rhar in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musician's spontaneous phrasing & Harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses" Jack Kerousc Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Frnaco American family. He attended local Catholic schools and wona A football scholarship to Columbia University where he met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. burroughs. He quite school in his sophomore year and joined the Merchant Marine beginning the restless wanderings that epitomized the "Beat Generation", and made Kerouac one of the most controversial and best known writers of his time. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969, at the age of 47. .
Synopsis
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums , Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues , his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "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
- Kerouac, Jack, introduction by Robert Creeeley
- Illustrator
- Pictorial cover of Lowell
- Book Condition
- Used - VG PB
- Edition
- 1ST PRINTING
- Publisher
- Penguin Poets
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1995)
- Keywords
- eight extended poems, "the form of blues choruses is lilmited by, breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the
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