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Book of Sketches

Book of Sketches

Kerouac, Jack
Condo, George

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0142002151
ISBN13: 9780142002155
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Apr 4 2006
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.64
Height: 1.17 Width: 4.84 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century

Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty.

In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he sketch in the streets like a painter but with words. In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem sketches in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story--or travelogue--appears, complete in itself.

In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.

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