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 rhythm, 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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Jack Kerouac; [introduction by Robert Creeley]

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

Ladybird Books Ltd

Penguin Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 1995

lg2859802

producers:
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition

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Memory of the World Librarian: Quintus

"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover.

topic: Beat generation

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Introduction by Robert Creeley
2. (p2) SAN FRANCISCO BLUES
3. (p3) RICHMOND HILL BLUES
4. (p4) BOWERY BLUES
5. (p5) MACDOUGAL STREET BLUES
6. (p6) DESOLATION BLUES
7. (p7) ORLANDA 210 BLUES
8. (p9) ORLANDA BLUES
9. (p10) CERRADA MEDELLIN BLUES
10. (p11) Notes on Dates and Sources
11. (p12) "Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice," by Alice Notley

theme: Beat generation

<p>Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including <b>On the Road</b> and <b>The Dharma Bums</b>, 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 <b>Mexico City Blues</b>, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, <b>Book of Blues</b> is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.</p>
<p>"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 &amp; harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves &amp; waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac</p>


<p>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.
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Eight extended poems from the acclaimed author of On the Road and Big Sur—featuring an introduction by Robert Creeley Best known for his “Legend of Duluoz” novels, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In the eight poems collected in Book of Blues, 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. “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 another, or not, in jazz, so that, 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 if waves & waves on by in measured choruses.”—Jack Kerouac These poems include: • San Francisco Blues• Richmond Hill Blues• Bowery Blues• MacDougal Street Blues• Desolation Blues• Orizaba 210 Blues• Orlanda Blues• Cerrada Medellin Blues Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rhythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.

CONTENTS......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 7
SAN FRANCISCO BLUES......Page 15
RICHMOND HILL BLUES......Page 94
BOWERY BLUES......Page 109
MACDOUGAL STREET BLUES......Page 119
DESOLATION BLUES......Page 129
ORIZABA 210 BLUES......Page 141
ORLANDA BLUES......Page 213
CERRADA MEDELLIN BLUES......Page 261
NOTES ON DATES AND SOURCES......Page 283
JACK WOULD SPEAK THROUGH THE IMPERFECT MEDIUM OF ALICE......Page 285

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