Old Angel Midnight (City Lights/Grey Fox)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087286703X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 94 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brilliance unencumbered by usefulness" according to Ant. Man, this is a hard slog. This is truly a work of spontaneous prose and you quickly realize this as you try to follow any path of sensible thought until you get to the point where you realize `It's not there'. This is not the written sounds of anything that flowed through Kerouac's midnight window, as he has you believe in a letter to a friend. I have never heard anything like that anywhere through an. Kerouac's Greatest Poem If you are a bystander to Kerouac's voice this may seem confused and a bunch of prattle, but this is an actual succient voice of Kerouac's being: Caught between being the soft sweet catholic mamma's boy and the aloof buddhist and the carnal man who wants to embrace all experiences however they come no doubt Finnagan's Wake played a role in how Kerouac's words flow but the cadence and jazz notes and va. pukerua said read it outloud. This book is about the time the author just sits in his lonely shack and listens to the sounds around.I guess if you just sit and listen intendly right now to all the sounds coming into your universe you will get the message jack was trying to put across. The best way to read this book is to read a section at a time out loud to someone. The result is quite magical. The words somehow all become clear a
At the time of its writing, this volume might have been considered an experimental "breakthrough," but it feels tired and trite now. From Publishers Weekly "Never before has inconsequentiality been raised to such a peak that it becomes a breakthrough," poet McClure writes in one of this volume's two prefaces. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Culled from five notebooks, the writing presented here--one continuous prose poem--spans 1956-59, a period when Kerouac (1922-1969) had immersed himself in Buddhist theory. Thus even more unconstrained, he plays with words, puns, delights in juxtaposed sounds, invents new words and throws in foreign ones almost at random: "Shoot, pot, proms were flowery purple lilac Richmond eve roadsters redlegs sweetdolls ." Like Kerouac's other manuscripts, this material was kept from publication until after his widow's death. Offbeat,
This is true beat pleasure. This is our music."—Thurston Moore. The golden rule Catholicism of New England mind in kahoots with free time Godhead consciousness. Recorded in a series of notebooks between 1956-1959, what Kerouac called his "endless automatic writing piece" began while he shared a cabin with poet Gary Snyder. Old Angel Midnight attests to the success of Kerouac's experiment and bears witness to his commitment to his craft, and to the pleasure he takes in writing: "I like the bliss of mind.""Old Angel Midnight is the illuminated notebook, the ur-text, of Kerouac vision/voice/language. "Old Angel Midnight is one of the great delights of the boundless improvisational world. A masterpiece of the mind freed to fly. Jack Kerouac's ear is peerless, manifesting structures otherwise impossible. He ma