Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues: A landmark Beat Generation poetry collection inspired by jazz rhythms and spontaneous prose.

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Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, paperback

Publication Date: March 21, 2023

Publisher Marketing: Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the beat generation. His eighteen internationally acclaimed books — including On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, and Lonesome Traveler — were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in Mexico City Blues, his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America’s most distinctive contribution to music.

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