Mexico City Blues
Author: Kerouac, Jack
ISBN: 9780241388945
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 17 Sep 2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics
'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.
ISBN: 9780241388945
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 17 Sep 2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics
'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.
