Mexico City Blues

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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.

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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

Additional information

Weight 191 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

245

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K