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'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. 'A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature' Allen Ginsberg 'A jazz poet. His sentences ...

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Mexico City Blues 2019, Penguin Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780241388945

Mass-market paperback

Mexico City Blues 1959, Grove/Atlantic, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780394172873

Trade paperback