
Mexico City Blues
by Jack Kerouac
Title:
Mexico City Blues
Author:
Jack Kerouac
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241388945
EAN:
9780241388945
Publication Date:
04/07/2019
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
308
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 175 x 14
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''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






























