Name: Book of Sketches 1952-1957 (Poets, Penguin) (in English)
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Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780142002155

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin Books

Author

Jack Kerouac

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

413

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0142002151

ISBN13

9780142002155

Edition No.

Synopsis "Book of Sketches 1952-1957 (Poets, Penguin) (in English)"

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.