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Book of Blues
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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: Sep 16 2025
Language: English
From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums come eight extended poems in which he reflects on the urban settings he finds himself in.
Best known for his novels, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues and jazz forms that he used in another book of poems, Mexico City Blues.
The poems included here, written between 1954 and 1961, are:
- San Francisco Blues
- Richmond Hill Blues
- Bowery Blues
- MacDougal Street Blues
- Desolation Blues
- Orizaba 210 Blues
- Orlanda Blues
- Cerrada Medellin Blues
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.
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