Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac - March 1990

UsedAcceptable. Cover has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

2ND PRINTING. Grove Press, 1990. PAPERBACK. Cover is curled and worn. Red remainder mark across the bottom page ends. Light foxing on the page ends. Water stain on the thumb edge. The upper corner of some pages are bent. No markings found in the text. No creases in the spine.

Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Used - VG. Local Independent Bookstore. All Orders ship within 2 business days.

Grove Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some wear on edges.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Grove Press, 1994-01-12. Reissue. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Book. Illus. by Allen Ginsberg;. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 244 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover portrait of Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg..

Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990. First trade paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very small creases at bottom corners.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… Read More