- Paperback: 76 pages
- Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Reprint edition (Jan 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872860647
- ISBN-13: 978-0872860643
- Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 12.4 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 82 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #112,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including “San Francisco Blues,” the variant texts of “Pull My Daisy,” and American haiku.
HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH
before we all go to Heaven
VISIONS OF AMERICA
All that hitchhikin
All that railroadin
All that comin back
to America —Jack Kerouac
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Good reason these were uncollected.,
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This review is from: Scattered Poems (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems (City Lights, 1971)Over the few years Kerouac wrote, he dashed off a number of poems that managed never to get collected, many of them in letters to Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. City Lights, with help from Ginsberg, compiled a small volume of these poems and released them some thirty years ago. While a few of the works here (and, in some cases, a line or two within one of the works) shows the power and natural affinity for language that makes Kerouac one of the enduring figures of American literature, Most of what's here is solid evidence that, where uncollected poems are concerned, there's usually a reason why they weren't published in the first place. Perhaps it is the prominence of the author in question, but while reading most of this work, I got a sense of hopelessness, a pathetic (in the classic definition of the term) feeling of emptiness. Unlike both the surrealism and the jazz from which Kerouac and his fellow Beats drew their inspiration, and also unlike the authors One place in which Kerouac does shine here, though, is in a small selection of haiku at the end of the book. Kerouac was one of the first American authors to really grasp the spirit of English-language haiku, as mentioned in a brief intro to the book's last section. Kerouac quotes a few Basho haiku and bemoans the inability of English to imitate the free-flowing Japanese language, coming to the conclusion that the "seventeen syllable" rule should be dropped for American haiku (as most serious haiku writers and scholars in English have also done in the forty or so years since Kerouac originally composed the works here). In the haiku, where Kerouac is forced to work with tight lines and spare images, his gift comes through. Unfortunately, it does so in far too few other pieces in this book. **
1.0 out of 5 stars
Scattered Poems,
By Charlie Burgess (Kalamazoo, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scattered Poems (Paperback)
A disappointing collection, probably put together to capitalize on the author's name.
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Kerouac at the brink of the world,
By A Customer
This review is from: Scattered Poems (Paperback)
There are few times in the history of mankind that we can sit back and allow ourselves to be manipulated by a pure mad man (brilliant writer). Kerouac's poems allow the mind to travel to the brink of truth and reality and come back unharmed and ... enlightened ... Thank God for kerouac ... he makes the world a better place and his poems are subconcious unfiltered visions of real life. "Pull My Daisy" with Ginsberg is a masterpiece as is "Old Angel Midnight". here is one poem : TO EDWARD DAHLBERG Don't use the telephone. People are never ready to answer it. Use Poetry. And Jack Kerouac does use poetry ... he uses it to give insight into a world he knew so well.
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