Mexico City Blues

Name: Mexico City Blues
Brand: Jack Kerouac
SKU: 9780241388945
Price: 9.07 GBP
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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

Price:£9.07

6 copies in stock

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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