Mexico City Blues: [(242 Choruses]

Title: Mexico City Blues: [(242 Choruses]
Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780802130600
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine


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Publisher Description:
One of the renowned Beat writer's most formally inventive books, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's essential work of lyric verse, now reissued following his centenary celebrationWritten between 1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959, Mexico City Blues is Kerouac's most important verse work. It incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition and his interest in Buddhism. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues. Written while Kerouac was living in Mexico City, and with references to William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Bill Garver, this exciting book in Kerouac's oeuvre is an original and moving epic of sound, rhythm, and religion.