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Book SynopsisTraces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts. This book asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process.
Trade Review"In Michael Hrebeniak's Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, we at last have a full-length study of Kerouac that does justice to the depth of his intellect and the significance of his formal innovations." - The Beat Review "Michael Hrebeniak has opened up serious issues that are always overlooked - propaganda, Marcuse, Olson's Human Universe, for starters. Hrebeniak's assessment of Kerouac's work as a 'swirling meditation on memory and recirculation of events' is a beautiful portal swinging wide. A complete success. Many are waiting to read a work on Jack that will put a modern foundation under the old dharma shack." - Michael McClure, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright "Michael Hrebeniak has written an exceptional book on Jack Kerouac, a book that melds criticism, narrative, and polemic into an entirely new alloy. It's strange, alive, angry, and yet controlled... a magnificent book." - Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind "Michael Hrebeniak's work is indeed rare. I don't know of another scholarly work that goes as far to ground Kerouac's Legend of Duluoz in such a wide and deep knowledge of world literatures." - Regina Weinreich, author of The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac "What is so exciting about Hrebeniak's book is how it places Kerouac and his work firmly within the avant-garde literary, artistic, and musical movements of the twentieth century." - Beat Scene"
