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# Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems (LOA #231) (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition) Hardcover – August 30, 2012

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Old Poems New Ink
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2012*

Old poems new inkUPS man with Amazon boxDelight at the doorWhile I just got my copy of the Library of America KEROUAC COLLECTED POEMS, I believe I can comment on the collection because I have read most of the poems more than once and over a period of years. I am excited to have all of Kerouac's poetry in one volume, especially the poems that have been unavailable or very hard to find.American Library produces books that feel good in the hand, are easy on the eyes, and are well edited. This volume was produce with exceptionally loving care.I first read MEXICO CITY BLUES in 1968 while I was living in Colonia Hipódromo Condesa in Mexico City. I was only a couple of miles from where Kerouac lived while he was writing his blues. I was living a very Beat life at the time.When I was a kid I think I wanted to be a Beatnik poet/artist, but of course, I was a few years too young. By the time Time Magazine picked up on the term "Beat" (coined by Kerouac) the movement was all but over (check out [...])--the activism of the 1960s was coming on stage. What Kerouac meant "beat" was the exhausted feeling young men of his generation felt after all the hardships of the Great Depression and WWII. These guys were physically and spiritually beat.Kerouac was my mother's age. Because I was too young to be a Beatnik (though I think I have become more Beat over the years) I was also too old to really be a hippy. After I got back from Mexico people who saw me certainly thought I was a hippy, but my intellectual heart was with the Beats, or the near Beats like Kenneth Patchen.Kerouac's poetry is a goof, a spontaneous life-energy, a bright bubble in time. There is no need for me to go into detail about his poetry. Whole books, some very worthwhile (for example A Map of Mexico Ctiy Blues, Jack Kerouac as Poet, by James T. Jones, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992), as well as many articles and talks (available on YouTube), which go to all aspects of Kerouac's poets. There is no substitute for the poetry itself, and the COLLECTED POEMS make it all available.As an aspiring poet in high school I wore out a Viking Portable Library edition of Leaves of Grass. It is my sincere hope that somewhere a young poet, or poets, will get hold of Kerouac's COLLECTED POEMS and not let go until all the pages are dog-eared, the covers sweat stained and the margins full of scribbled ideas for other poems.Kerouac put his life into his words and his words have meaning.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Visionary Work
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019*

Around the same time I began to consider adding poetry to the early band projects I was in I found Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac. The poems were transcendent and beautiful, spontaneous and inspired by jazz improvisational sessions of the era. I found that the Beat Poets were trying to revive lyric poetry really and Jack Kerouac helped to bring it back to the people again. This Collected Poems is the best hardback edition of Kerouac's visionary work that I have found.

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    I would like to get a copy of " On The Road ...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016*

I would like to get a copy of " On The Road " in the American Classics" series when I can afford one. American Classics are great books with readable sharp clear text! Thanks to Amazon.

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