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Book of Blues

Book of Blues

Creeley, Robert
Kerouac, Jack

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

Fiction AnthologiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0140587004
ISBN13: 9780140587005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 1995
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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

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