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Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series (Book 48)
Paperback: 175 pages
Publisher: City Lights Publishers (January 1, 2001)
That is the central question to this collection of poems. All of them seem to be intoned with a sense of intentionally attacking the sacred tradition of being serious about poetry. And yet, some end up with beautiful moments and insights. And even if not that, there is still the vibration of enjoying life in an almost chaotic fusion of urge and meditation. Poems range from containing only one line ("I am God"), to pages of what seems to alternately be wandering drivel and intentional questioning of something that Jack seems to see but the reader quite doesn't. Overall, this is a MUST READ for those who like Kerouac. Specifically, at least two poems seem to be inherent to the creation of at least two books (On the Road and Dharma Bums). The Gary Snyder Haikus are downright hilarious in my mind, and capture perfectly that Zen Beatist sense of overindulged mentality in an underindulged world.
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You won't understand Kerouac's writing style by reading On the Road or Dharma Bums. To really dig what he was getting at you have to read his "Belief & Technique in Modern Prose" then read some stuff like Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Visions of Cody, Mexico City Blues, etc.
Pomes All Sizes is full of astonishing pomes by one of the most important literary innovators of the 20th century, & along with Some of the Dharma it's Kerouac's most personal book. Yes, there's lots of silly fragments and intoxicated sketches (where else do you find a Kerouac pome written while on morphine or goofballs), but you gotta see Kerouac's style values spontaneity over crafted work, so it is these unpretentious, unselfconscious pomes that are among his greatest accomplishments.
This slim volume is jam-packed with mindblowing pomes: "Mexican Loneliness," "How to Meditate," "The Moon," "Skid Row Wine," "Long Island Chinese Poem Rain," "Silly Goofball Pomes," "God," "Bowery Blues," and dozens of haikus...
Yes, the book is inconsistent at times, after all it is selections from his private notebooks, but the great poems more than make up for the mediocre.
If you do not dig this book then you do not dig Kerouac. Nuff said.
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Probably my favorite Collection of Kerouac-y-ness and a good place to start on his poetry, which I love even more than his "fiction." A weird, wild book filled with thought food and holiness, or at least something resembling that. Lots of sideways going in here, lots of poems (pomes) that yer average "this ain't poetry" person will sniff at and/or condemn (like we should care.) Overall, this and "Book of Blues" are my favorite poetry volumes from this guy, and Mexico City's nice but it doesn't grab me as immediately and perfectly as does this. Read it. It's fun!
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A brillant poetry reader Meant to be read aloud and sung rhythmically. Kerouac is known for on the road but this books is at least as brillant. Also read "The Dharma Bums" which is a tremendous book about his belief in Buddhism on a much different road.
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