Jack Kerouac

Mexico City Blues

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Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. “I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway through a chorus to halfway into the next.” “A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature.” – Allen Ginsberg; “Kerouac calls himself a jazz poet. There is no doubt about his great sensitivity to language. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins of Dylan Thomas” – The New York Herald Tribune
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83 printed pages
Original publication
2007
Publication year
2007
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Quotes

  • Carlos Castillo Novelohas quoted3 years ago
    AZTEC BLUES

    “A kek Horrac”

    I hear in the Aztec Night

    Of Mystery

    Where the Plateau Moon

    With Moon Citlapol

    Over the dobe roofs

    Of Heroé Mexico
  • Carlos Castillo Novelohas quoted3 years ago
    How solid our ignorance –

    how empty our substance

    and the conscience

    keeps bleeding

    and decay is slow –

    children grow.
  • Carlos Castillo Novelohas quoted3 years ago
    Forgive everyone for yr own sins

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