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Jack Kerouac | 256 pages | 01 Dec 1994 | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press | 9780802130600 | English | New York, United States Mexico City Blues by

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I have to say that it Mexico City Blues just his poetry, and I am not fond of it. View all 4 comments. Zenful jazz riffs on our smoke veiled existence - beautiful. Aug 25, Rodney rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. It took me years to get beyond the Beat myth and see these poems for what they are; some of the most joyful, goofy and affecting writings of the last century. Kerouac wrote all choruses--one per notebook page--over six weeks in His improvised word-jazz was at its peak; the poems are fresh and spontaneous but Mexico City Blues sloppy try it yourself if you don't believe me. Mexico City Blues Buddhist leanings are Mexico City Blues little simple-minded, but simplicity is part of the point. Kerouac combines a love for made-up It took me years to get beyond the Beat myth and see these Mexico City Blues for what they are; some of the most joyful, goofy and affecting writings of the last century. Kerouac combines a love for made-up words and feeling for language as pure sound with a lyrical directness you find more often in pop songs than modern poetry. Hearing Kerouac read some of these on the Steve Allen record made me realize how rare a thing his poems achieved: sentiment, experiment, tenderness, peace. A moving companion to . View 1 comment. Nov 15, Heather Marie rated it really liked it. Jan 30, Lucas Theron Lammott rated it it was amazing. I think the thing with JK is finding the diamond in the Mexico City Blues between the free flow. Try not to think to hard about what your reading but let it speak to you in your own way Listen, I've read a lot of poetry, especially studying English Literature for so many years. Love him or hate him, he's a master beat novelist in the "stream of consciousness" style. But his poetry? Grade A Shit. In college, the professors explai Listen, I've read a lot of poetry, especially studying English Literature for so many years. In college, the professors explained the different schools of poetry, such as literary poetry and performance poetry. Literary poetry focuses on the Mexico City Blues literary meaning and literary devices, whereas performance poetry focuses more on the sounds and wordplay while sacrificing meaning. This is trying so hard to be both by pretending to be clever and literary and stream of consciousness, Mexico City Blues possessing some alliterative wordplay and interesting sounding nonsense. The trouble with his poems is that there's no point or theme, no larger image or feeling he builds into a recognizable construct. It's like he takes a line and runs wherever the fuck he wants to. And that's fine for an exercise, to mutter to yourself in the dark before you go to sleep. But don't fool yourself into believing you've crafted genius. If Kerouac would have workshopped any of these he Mexico City Blues have gotten bitch slapped for his arrogance. Maybe if he'd studied poetry, taken heed of what was and wasn't done. The trouble with the Beats is they wanted to break all the rules without learning them first. And that sort of worked with fiction, because stylized and breathless prose is readable and can even be exhilarating. But Kerouac's poetry breaks the rules to no avail, without making any new bold statement except that he is exceptionally unschooled Mexico City Blues poetry and thinks himself a god. But what specifically is terrible? The worst part is that he elevates nothing to the level of something, tries to make gods of futile fart-infested gusts of thought, of idiotic drug-addled dialog, of such tangential blowhard irrelevance it's infuriating that he is capable of Mexico City Blues garbage and yet such magic like that of his prose. He just couldn't focus, couldn't edit, couldn't kill his darlings. With training and a Nazi editor he might have made an okay poet. But this Mexico City Blues the worst case of delusional grandeur I've ever seen. View all 8 comments. Aug 22, Luke Redfield rated it really Mexico City Blues it Recommends it Mexico City Blues fans of stream-of- conciousness. Mar 23, Shane Mexico City Blues it it was amazing. This is the greatest work of poetry I've ever read. It's pure freedom of form, hypnotic meters, and chasmic depth inspired me to be a writer for the rest of my life. I finished my Extended Essay! Hence, I finished this. At first, I won't lie, Mexico City Blues was kinda reserved towards the poem. They just looked like random words strewn together on a page. Poems are supposed to be pleasantly musical, in some shape or another. However, after the extensive research that came with writing my monster essay, there is no denying Kerouac's inherent musicality in his poems. The erratic, spontaneous, improvisational feel of jazz is vividly latent in all of these choruses. Good job I finished my Extended Essay! Good job man. Kerouac wrote his volume of poetry "Mexico City Blues" during the summer of while living in Mexico City. Kerouac's friend, Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Press, rejected the book for publication in InGrove Press published the work. Then, in November,the poet Kenneth Rexroth published a devastatin Kerouac wrote his volume of poetry "Mexico City Blues" during the summer of while living in Mexico City. Rexroth wrote: "Mr. Kerouac's Buddha is a dime-store incense burner, glowing and glowering sinisterly in the dark corner of a pad and just thrilling the wits out of bad little girls. I've always wondered whatever happened to those wax-work figures in the old rubberneck dives in Chinatown. Now we know; at least one of them writes books. The book continues to be read, discussed, argued about, and taught. Kerouac wanted to write poetry in the style of the Mexico City Blues and bop music he loved; and in this he for the most part succeeded. He wrote at the outset of the book: "I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon Mexico City Blues session on Sunday. I take choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway Mexico City Blues a chorus to halfway into the next. The dividing lines between some of the choruses thus frequently seem artificial and mask a continuity in the text. As with all poetry, the choruses in Mexico City Blues City Blues" work best when declaimed and read aloud.