书名:Book of Sketches: 1952-57 (Penguin Poets) 作者:Jack Kerouac 出版社名称:Penguin USA 出版时间:2006 语种:英语 ISBN:9780142002155 商品尺寸:11.8 x 2.7 x 15.4 cm 包装:平装 页数:432(以实物为准)
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels―New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico―observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story―or travelogue―appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.