The poetry of Jack Kerouac : scattered poems, the scripture of the golden eternity, and old angel midnight / Jack Kerouac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerouac, Jack, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

From the iconic New York Times -bestselling author of On the Road: Three revolutionary collections of poetry in one volume. Rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Jack Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition and driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction. In these three groundbreaking collections, the legendary Beat writer offers a spontaneous, uncensored perspective on everything from religion to the structure of language itself. Scattered Poems: Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Scattered Poems exemplifies Kerouac's innovative approach to language. Populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, the poems evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: During an unexplained fainting spell, Kerouac experienced a flash of enlightenment. A student of Buddhist philosophy, he recognized the experience as "satori, " a moment of life-changing epiphany. The knowledge he gained in that instant is expressed in this volume of sixty-six prose poems with language that is both precise and cryptic, mystical and plain. His vision proclaims, "There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one golden eternity." Old Angel Midnight: A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Kerouac's most boldly experimental works. Collected from five notebooks dating from 1956 to 1959-a time in which Kerouac was immersed in Buddhist theory- Old Angel Midnight captures the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Contents

Publisher's Note on Poetry

Scattered Poems

Epigraph

Translation From The French Of Jean-Louis Incogniteau

Song: Fiemyfum

Pull My Daisy

He is your friend

Old buddy aint you gonna stay by me?

Daydreams For Ginsberg

Lucien Midnight

Someday you'll be lying

I clearly saw

HYMN

Poem: I demand that the human race

The Thrashing Doves

The Buddhist Saints

How To Meditate

A Pun For Al Gelpi

Sept. 16, 1961

Rimbaud

from Old Angel Midnight

More Old Angel Midnight

Auro Boralis Shomoheen

Long Dead's Longevity

Sitting Under Tree Number Two

A Curse At The Devil

Sight is just dust

Poem

To Edward Dahlberg

Two Poems

To Allen Ginsberg

Poem: Jazz killed itself

To Harpo Marx

Hitch Hiker

Four Poems From "San Francisco Blues"

from San Francisco Blues

Blues: And he sits embrowned

Blues: Part of the morning stars

Hey listen you poetry audiences

Some Western Haikus (from Book Of Haiku)

Some Western Haikus

Sources

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

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Old Angel Midnight

Dedication

Editor's Note

About the Author

Copyright Page.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 15, 2017).

ISBN:

9781504047166

1504047168