Book of Blues

Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley

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.

status	Copy #1 (6771): in
genre	Literature and Fiction » Beat Generation
publisher	Penguin Books
publish date	September 1, 1995
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