Mexico City Blues

Name: Mexico City Blues
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241388945
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By Jack Kerouac

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac is a unique work of poetry that captures the spontaneous and improvisational nature of jazz through its 242 choruses. The book delves into the author's reflections on life, mortality, and spirituality, painting a vivid picture of his internal landscape. It's an exploration of the Beat Generation's themes, expressed through Kerouac's rhythmic and free-spirited writing style.
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If you're drawn to the rhythmic melodies and exploratory spirit of jazz blended with introspective musings on life, creativity, and spirituality, you'll likely find joy in this collection of poems. This work offers a unique snapshot of the Beat Generation, with spontaneous prose and a free-flowing style that immerses you in the depths of artistic expression and existential thought.

Mexico City Blues

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Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics.

'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'

Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Mexico City Blues, by Jack Kerouac, is often appreciated for its spontaneous and rhythmic prose, drawing strong connections to jazz in its style. It is described as a work blending poetry and music, with language that echoes the style of notable poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas, giving it a unique, tempestuous quality.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241388945

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Jack Kerouac Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.