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Loading... Scattered Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (edition 2001)by Jack Kerouac
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "Pull my daisy, Tip my cup, Cut my thoughts For coconuts," I checked this out to read "Pull My Daisy", of which there are three versions by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady. Still not my thing, as I enjoy Kerouac’s prose more than his poetry, but interesting! I enjoyed his “Western Haikus” the most in this collection. "Bite my naked nut" * sad postscript - Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away while I was reading this book. It was published by his City Lights Books. 😢 I'm down for anything Kerouac, so this little book of random pieces from other publications and journals is a nice collection to read now and again. I picked this one up from the small local bookstore in Emerald Isle one summer and keep it near at hand. Best part for me is the poem for Harpo Marx and the collection of Western Haiku (including Kerouac's explanation of traditional haiku and the difference in writing a western haiku). Good stuff. no reviews | add a review
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Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac's Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon's innovative approach to language. Kerouac's poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. Scattered Poems, which includes the playfully instructive "How to Meditate," the sensory "San Francisco Blues," and an ode to Kerouac's fellow Beat Allen Ginsberg, is rich in striking images and strident urgency. Kerouac's widespread influences feel new and fresh in these poems, which echo the rhythm of improvisational jazz music, and the centuries-old structure of Japanese haiku. In rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition, driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction, and expressed through spontaneous, uncensored writing. No library descriptions found. |
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