Scattered Poems
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Scattered Poems

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Scattered Poems

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Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac's Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon's innovative approach to language. Kerouac's poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. Scattered Poems, which includes the playfully instructive "How to Meditate, " the sensory "San Francisco Blues, " and an ode to Kerouac's fellow Beat Allen Ginsberg, is rich in striking images and strident urgency. Kerouac's widespread influences feel new and fresh in these poems, which echo the rhythm of improvisational jazz music, and the centuries-old structure of Japanese haiku. In rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition, driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction, and expressed through spontaneous, uncensored writing.

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Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2016
ISBN
9781504034005
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Epigraph
  5. Publisher’s Note on Poetry
  6. A Translation From The French Of Jean-Louis Incogniteau
  7. Song: Fiemyfum
  8. Pull My Daisy
  9. Pull My Daisy
  10. He is your friend
  11. Old buddy aint you gonna stay by me?
  12. Daydreams For Ginsberg
  13. Lucien Midnight
  14. Someday you’ll be lying
  15. I clearly saw
  16. HYMN
  17. Poem: I demand that the human race
  18. The Thrashing Doves
  19. The Buddhist Saints
  20. How To Meditate
  21. A Pun For Al Gelpi
  22. Sept. 16, 1961
  23. Rimbaud
  24. from Old Angel Midnight
  25. More Old Angel Midnight
  26. Auro Boralis Shomoheen
  27. Long Dead’s Longevity
  28. Sitting Under Tree Number Two
  29. A Curse At The Devil
  30. Sight is just dust
  31. Poem
  32. Two Poems
  33. To Allen Ginsberg
  34. Poem: Jazz killed itself
  35. To Harpo Marx
  36. Hitch Hiker
  37. Four Poems From “San Francisco Blues”
  38. from San Francisco Blues
  39. Blues: And he sits embrowned
  40. Blues: Part of the morning stars
  41. Hey listen you poetry audiences
  42. Some Western Haikus (from Book Of Haiku)
  43. Some Western Haikus
  44. Sources
  45. About the Author
  46. Copyright Page