Mexico City Blues
''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal...
''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal...
