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Book of Blues by Kerouac Jack [Kerouac Jack] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Book of Blues about?

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language,employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullesteffect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich withimagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness tothe moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written,like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and sosometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, ornot, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, theform is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing& harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac

Who reads Book of Blues?

Author

Kerouac Jack [Kerouac Jack]

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

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Updated

2026-03-14