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<<< 1 2 3 4 >>>     sort list by title | publication date The Scripture of the Golden Eternity Pocket Poets Number 51 Jack Kerouac These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the... The Sea is My Brother The Lost Novel Jack Kerouac A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac Some of the Dharma Jack Kerouac Notes on Buddhist study and practice, poems, blues, haiku, conversations, prayers, meditations, journal entries, sketches, stories, thoughts on writing, fragments of letters, epiphanies and more... Subterraneans Jack Kerouac Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox– two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground– The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers... The Town and the City Jack Kerouac Inspired by his idol, Thomas Wolfe, Kerouac explores the emotional territory of his boyhood through the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family... Trip Trap Haiku on the Road Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, Lew Welch This newly-revised edition-originally published in 1973-of the haiku Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch jotted down on the road from San Francisco to New York in 1959, are dense, earthy incarnations of life on the road: "A coral colored... Tristessa Jack Kerouac Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady. Vanity of Duluoz An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 Jack Kerouac With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann... Visions of Cody Jack Kerouac Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in an experimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady... Visions of Gerard A Novel Jack Kerouac Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood– the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock– as they were revealed in the short tragic -happy life. Wake Up A Life of the Buddha Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac's profound meditations on the Buddha's life and religion In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found... Windblown World The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 Jack Kerouac, Douglas Brinkley Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World... You'll Be Okay My Life with Jack Kerouac Edie Kerouac-Parker "We’ve officially entered what might as well be called Jack Kerouac Awareness Month. It’s the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' and the commemorations include . . . a memoir, 'You’ll Be Okay,' from Kerouac’s first wife." – NY Times Desolate Angel Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America Dennis McNally The long-awaited reissue of the definitive biography of Jack Kerouac, unwitting avatar of the Beat Generation and author of On the Road. Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a... <<< 1 2 3 4 >>>