{"product_id":"book-of-blues-9780140587005","title":"Book of Blues","description":"Best known for his \"Legend of Duluoz\" novels, including \u003cb\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 fullest effect in \u003cb\u003eMexico City Blues\u003c\/b\u003e, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, \u003cb\u003eBook of Blues\u003c\/b\u003e is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.\u003cp\u003e\"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 so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, 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, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing \u0026amp; harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves \u0026amp; waves on by in measured choruses.\" --Jack Kerouac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140587005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1995 pg. 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/1995 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/28\/1995 pg. 108\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jack Kerouac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924820398261,"sku":"9780140587005","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c67e2e0e-5e93-429e-a818-820582fd77b2.jpg?v=1687838996","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/book-of-blues-9780140587005","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}