KEROUAC JACK

(P/B) SCATTERED POEMS
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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(P/B) DESOLATION ANGELS
Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils and spiritual contemplation with unsurpassable ene...
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(H/B) BEAT PAINTING
The book features eighty paintings and drawings, most of which unpublished, which shed a completely new light on the artistic activities of the father of the Beat Generation. A special focus is given to analysing his labyrinthic creative process and his relationships with traditional American visual culture, and with other Beat movement authors, from Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs and the masters of Art Informel and the New York School with whom Kerouac started hanging out in the latter half of the 1950s. The book also explores Keroua...
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Η ΣΟΥΤΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΧΡΥΣΗΣ ΑΙΩΝΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ
Εν μέρει στοχασμοί, εν μέρει πρωτότυπη λογοτεχνία, "Η σούτρα της χρυσής αιωνιότητας" είναι ένα κείμενο ελεύθερης πνοής που αντιπροσωπεύει την ωρίμανση των υπαρξιακών αναζητήσεων του Τζακ Κέρουακ μέσα από την ενότητα με το σύμπαν. Ο Τζακ Κέρουακ, σαν αυθέντης της υψηλής έκφρασης μιλά τη γλώσσα μιας Κενής εσωτερικότητας. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) MEXICO CITY BLUES (MODERN CLASSICS)
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 and all-encompassing epic. (From the publisher)...
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ΟΙ ΑΛΗΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΤΑΡΜΑ
"Εγώ ήθελα ένα σακίδιο γεμάτο με ό,τι ήταν απαραίτητο για τον ύπνο, καταφύγιο, φαγητό, μαγείρεμα, στην ουσία μια πλήρη κουζίνα και κρεβατοκάμαρα, ακριβώς πάνω στην πλάτη μου, και να πάω κάπου, να βρω απόλυτη μοναξιά, να μελετήσω το απόλυτο κενό του μυαλού μου, να είμαι εντελώς ουδέτερος για οποιαδήποτε ή οποιεσδήποτε ιδέες. Σκόπευα να έχω, μάλιστα, σαν μοναδική μου δραστηριότητα την προσευχή, να προσεύχομαι για όλα τα ζωντανά πλάσματα έβλεπα ότι αυτή ήταν η μόνη αξιοπρεπής δραστηριότητα που είχε απομείνει στον κόσμο. Να είσαι σε κάποια όχ...
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(P/B) DOCTOR SAX
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when h...
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(P/B) THE SCRIPTURE OF THE GOLDEN ETERNITY
These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) OLD ANGEL MIDNIGHT
"Old Angel Midnight is one of the great delights of the boundless improvisational world. Jack Kerouac's ear is peerless, manifesting structures otherwise impossible. A masterpiece of the mind freed to fly. Read it aloud, for yourself, 'for the sake of reading, and for the sake of the Tongue ...Let's hear the Sound of the Universe, son.' -- Clark Coolidge Old Angel Midnight is a treasure trove of Kerouac's experiments with automatic writing, a method he practiced constantly to sharpen his imaginative reflexes. Recorded in a series of note...
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(P/B) WAKE UP
Never before published in Kerouac’s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama’s life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha’s royal upbringing and his father’s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac’s career, ...
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(P/B) THE HAUNTED LIFE
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life. The Haunted Life is ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth,...
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(P/B) BOOK OF HAIKUS
"Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella." --Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form's es...
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(H/B) THE HAUNTED LIFE
Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark Costello, first published in 1990, long out of print, and previously unavailable outside the USA. A paean to the golden age of Hip-Hop and the first book to consider seriously its position as a vital force in American culture, Signifying Rappers is a must-read for fans of both Wallace and hip-hop. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, it maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energ...
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(P/B) BEAT GENERATION
"Beat Generation" is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. Written in 1957, the same year that "On the Road" was first published, and set in 1953, "Beat Gene...
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(P/B) MAGGIE CASSIDY
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully captures both the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications and is a beautiful evocation of growing up in America. (From the publisher)...
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MEXICO CITY BLUES

ΓΡΑΦΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΙΩΝΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ
[. . .] Διαβάστε τα κείμενα σαν ένα ημερολόγιο που σας εμπιστεύθηκε μυστικά κάποιος, σαν ένα κομμένο χαρτί που έφερε ο άνεμος κάποιο πρωί στα πόδια σας, όχι σαν ένα βιβλίο του πασίγνωστου, πολυδιαβασμένου Κέρουακ, αυτή είναι η συμβουλή μου - έτσι κι αλλιώς οι "μποέμικες ωραιότητες" -που βρίσκονται πρώτες στην κλίμακα απόλαυσης της πλειονότητας των αναγνωστών- δεν πρόκειται να κινδυνεύσουν ό,τι κι αν γίνει. . . [. . .] Εύχομαι να εκτιμηθούν από ακόμα περισσότερους αναγνώστες, κείμενα που κατά καιρούς έγραψαν φωτισμένοι δημιουργοί σαν τον Τζ...
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