The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and
1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years
since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his
Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier,
Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of
God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations.
Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine,
long elegy in "Canuckian Child Patoi Probably Medieval ...an
English blues." But more than a quarter of a century after it was
written, Pomes of All Sizes today would seem to be more than a sum
of it parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular
image of himself as a Beat on the Road. "Here is a treasure, in the
mainstream of American Literature ...lovely familiar classic
Kerouacism's, nostalgic gathas from 1955 Berkeley cottage days,
pure sober tender Kerouac of your yore, pithy exquisite later
drunken laments and bitter nuts and verses ...to be appreciated by
cognoscenti and literate strangers alike ..." --from the
Introduction by Allen Ginsberg "Underlying this volume ...is the
drama of Kerouac the mystic, with his urge toward control, at odds
with Kerouac the freewheeling Beat and, on a personal level,
Kerouac the alcoholic. Yet as Ginsberg observes in his
introduction, division--the sense of life as "both real and
dream"--is the pervasive "spiritual intelligence" of the Beats.
Given that, this is a perhaps ironically representative volume."
--Publishers Weekly "Here in Pomes All Sizes you discover the
contemplative Kerouac, musing on the quiet meaning of things or
thinking of friends in other places, casting his thoughts into
"little short lines" and stopping exactly where the first thought
stopped. There is delight to be gained here, poetic delight and a
fuller picture of the great Kerouac persona which has relentlessly
been reduced over the years to the well-known caricature of the
graceless drunken beatnik lout. Bullshit! Kerouac, my friends, was
full of grace, and a 'great creator of forms that ultimately find
expression in mores and what have you.'" --John Sinclair Jack
Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation,
and a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great
adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico
City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Scattered Poems
(City Lights), and Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).
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