Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road
and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In
these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of
experience in the music of language, employing the same
instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico
City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern
literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an
exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery,
propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the
moment.
"In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the
small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written,
like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and
so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into
another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry
harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so
that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time,
and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with
the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured
choruses." --Jack Kerouac
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