Pomes All Sizes - Pocket Poets series #48

Kerouac, Jack

Published by City Lights Books (1992), San Francisco, CA

About this Item

The original manuscript of this book written betweeen 1954 and 1965 has been in the safekeeping of City Lights since his death in 1960. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid -fifties road poems, nymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Duddhist metitations Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku and a fine long elegy in"Canuckian Child PatoiPbably Medieval.an English blues. But more than a century after it wa written, Pomeizes All sizes today would seem to be more than the sum of its parts,revealing a questing Kerouac: grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road. from the introduction "Here's 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 exuisite later drunken lamentss and bitter nuts and verses.totally appreciated by =cognoscenti and literate strangers alike" by Allen Ginsberg Pocket Poets Series #48, highlighting. Seller Inventory # 056568

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pomes All Sizes - Pocket Poets series #48

Publisher: City Lights Books (1992), San Francisco, CA

Illustrator: Cover Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Condition: VG PB