Mexico City Blues

Jack Kerouac

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Penguin
17 September 2019

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics

'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.

By: Jack Kerouac
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9780241388945
ISBN 10: 0241388945
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.

Reviews for Mexico City Blues

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 of Dylan Thomas. -- The New York Herald Tribune