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The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of god, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine, long elegy in “Canuckian Child Patoí Probably Medieval…an English blues.” But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, Pomes All Sizes today would seem to be more than the sum of its parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road. “Here’s a treasure, in the mainstream of American literature…lovely familiar classic Kerouacism’s, nostalgic gathas from 1955 Berkeley cottage days, pure sober tender Kerouac of your yore, pity exquisite later drunken laments and bitter nuts and verses…to be appreciated by cognoscenti and literate strangers alike….”– from the Introduction by Allen Ginsberg |
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