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''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''

Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.

''A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature'' Allen Ginsberg

''A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas'' The New York Herald Tribune



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A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature. -- Allen Ginsberg
A jazz poet. 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 York Herald Tribune

Mexico City Blues

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 4 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9780241388945
      978-0241388945
      ISBN-10 0241388945
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      Poetry Books by Jack Kerouac

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''

      Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.

      ''A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature'' Allen Ginsberg

      ''A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas'' The New York Herald Tribune



      Trade Review
      A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature. -- Allen Ginsberg
      A jazz poet. 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 York Herald Tribune

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