Book of Blues - Brossura

Kerouac, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0140587004 ISBN 13: 9780140587005

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1995

Riassunto

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.

"In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac

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L'autore:

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels areOn the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

Product Description:

New York. 20 cm. xiii, 273 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Jack Kerouac ; [introduction by Robert Creeley]. Penguin poets. "A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references. Contents San Francisco blues -- Richmond Hill blues -- Bowery blues -- Macdougal Street blues -- Desolation blues -- Orizaba 210 blues -- Orlanda blues -- Cerrada Medellin blues .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0140587004

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140587004
• ISBN 13: 9780140587005
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 288