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GCDS-9780872862692 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100523060 02 0872862690 03 9780872862692 15 9780872862692 BC 01 305 1 A01 Kerouac, Jack Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include <em>On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes </em>(City Lights), <em>Scattered Poems </em>(City Lights), and <em>Scripture of the Golden Eternity </em>(City Lights). 2 A24 Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom "Howl" is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet." 01 eng 168 01 <P>The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine, long elegy in &quot;Canuckian Child Patoi Probably Medieval . . . an English blues.&quot; But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, Pomes of All Sizes today would seem to be more than a sum of it parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road.</p> 02 The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier... 08 "Here's a treasure, in the mainstream of American literature...lovely familiar classic Kerouacism's, nostalgic gathas from 1955 Berkeley cottage days, pure sober tender Kerouac of your yore, pity exquisite later drunken laments and bitter nuts and verses...to be appreciated by cognoscenti and literate strangers alike...." from the Introduction by Allen Ginsberg 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100523060/images/87286100523060L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100523060/images/87286100523060S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100523060 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19920701 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19920701 01 02 13.95 USD