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Title: Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0-87286-269-0 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
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Comment: If you read Kerouac's Pomes All Sizes you can find out what lapis lazuli is....
Rating: 5
Summary: Greatest book of pomery of all time
Comment: You will not 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 an incredible book, 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 (but far, far, far more readable than "some of the dharma," which I would only recommend you read after reading everything else kerouac has ever written). 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 mind blowing 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, but after all it is selections from his private notebooks -- and what a rare treat to be invited to spy into a great writer's "secret scribbled notebooks and wild typewritten pages."
If you do not dig this book then you do not dig Kerouac. Nuff said.
Rating: 2
Summary: Difficult reading. Proceed with caution.
Comment: A must read for the serious Kerouac fan, Pomes is a "Why bother?" for everyone else. Ann Charters wrote "The quality most pure in Kerouac was his grasp that life is really a dream." Nowhere is this more evident than in the random jottings that has been published as Pomes All Sizes. There are some gems among his silly little haikus, and I truly enjoyed the first sequence of "Poems of the Buddhas of Old." Most of the collection left me scratching my head. Was Jack just having a bit of fun with us, or was he so advanced that I still can not grasp the meaning? "Life is like a dream. / You only believe it's real / Cause you're born a sucker / For that kind of deal;" In Pomes All Sizes the roses are beautiful, but the path to them is unpassable to all but the most devout.
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Title: Book of Blues (Penguin Poets) by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140587004 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0872860647 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: December, 1971 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802130607 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Heaven and Other Poems by John Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, Donald Allen ISBN: 0912516313 Publisher: Grey Fox Pr Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Pocket Poets Series) by Jack Kerouac, Eric Mottram, Anne Waldman ISBN: 0872862917 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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