{"product_id":"pomes-all-sizes-pocket-poets-number-48-by-jack-kerouac","title":"Kerouac, Jack: Pomes All Sizes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books (paperback, 2001)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes 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 Patoi Probably Medieval . . . an English blues.\" But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, \u003cem\u003ePomes of All Sizes\u003c\/em\u003e today would seem to be more than a sum of it parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here is 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, pithy exquisite later drunken laments and bitter nuts and verses . . . to be appreciated by cognoscenti and literate strangers alike . . . .\" --from the Introduction by Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31758215348247,"sku":"9780872862692","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_993ec142-ef90-43e7-bfec-50746801f7e4.jpg?v=1599952496","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/pomes-all-sizes-pocket-poets-number-48-by-jack-kerouac","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}