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Indlæser... Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses (original 1959; udgave 1994)af Jack Kerouac
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Being perfectly too serious, Kerouac's idea of spontaneous writing does not work nearly quite so well when writing poetry than it does when Kerouac busts out his mostly American adventures in prose. Oh ho ho, it's still good, still enjoyable: I enjoy it. Thing is, see, a lot comes across as meaningless drivel, don't ever read this book straight through, you'll get angry and tell yourself lies, you like it less than you do, and cetera. (Happened with me--currently glimpsing through 2 weeks later and digging this stuff more and more.) There's an end and at it Kerouac's poetry just didn't compare to his fellow beats; Corso, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Brautigan, Kaufman, Snyder, (probably not Orlovsky--Idon'tknow--,) left him in the dust. He always sez he was scared of reading this stuff out loud. (Why do I mention that?) There were parts had me groaning most loudly: his cheesy grade school attempts at rhyming I couldn't understand the point of. The best parts? I have a thing for the Beats' Buddhism, so whenever the word bodhisattva or similar pop up I got kinda excited here in my seat and my appreciation came back up to normal. Here's one I find pretty hep, the 33rd chorus of 242: A vast cavern, huh? I stop & jump to other field And you wander around Like Jap prisoners In Salt Lake Cities Under San Francisco's Sewage disaster. "An explorer of souls and cities --" "A lowdown junkey" -- "Who has discovered that the essence of life is found only in the poppy plant with the help of odium the addict explores the world anew and creates a world in his own image with the help of Madame Poppy I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it"* If you can't dig that, you can't dig the 244 pages of poetry within Meheeco City Blues. Not the best stuff, but good. Nothing truly memorable, nothing to memorize and sing with soft love in the ears of a young woman who probably doesn't even like poetry anyway so what the fuck. If ever I come galloping across more Kerouac poetry, I'll pick it up gladly, especially if it's called the Scripture of the Golden Eternity or Pomes All Sizes, but ahhh not much effort'll be going into these hunts, no sir. Give me another Dharma Bums! or Desolation Angels! or Lonesome Traveler! or yes! even On the Road! F.V.: Sixty percent. *LT won't allow me to re-create the structure of the poem, which does hurt it a bit, trust me. [Time of review: 250 users] ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. "I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway through a chorus to halfway into the next." "A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature." - Allen Ginsberg; "Kerouac calls himself a jazz poet. There is no doubt about his great sensitivity to language. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins of Dylan Thomas" - The New York Herald Tribune. No library descriptions found. |
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The result is this book, with 242 choruses, or poems. Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of Kerouac's poetry. And this collection was no exception. Just not for me, I guess. ( )