"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel
and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making
myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart
. . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." --Jack Kerouac, in a
letter to John Clellon Holmes
Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by
the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical,
experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as
Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac created the
ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady during the late
forties, which he captured in different form in On the Road. Here
are the members of the Beat Generatoin as they were in the years
before any label had been affixed to them. Here is the postwar
America that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently.
His ecstatic sense of superabundant reality is informed by the
knowledge of mortality: "I'm writing this book because we're all
going to die. . . . My heart broke in the general despair and
opened up inward to the Lord, I made a supplication in this
dream."
"The most sincere and holy writing I know of our age." --Allen
Ginsberg
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