4 reviews for:

Book of Blues

Jack Kerouac

3.48 AVERAGE

bookishmatt42's review


“I’d better be a poet
Or lay down dead”

this is like a poetry version of Captain Beefheart’s album Trout Mask Replica, to me. Will not be explaining further.

kenningjp's review

4.0
challenging slow-paced
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lintylinden's review

1.0

Kerouac's American Haiku were a pretty big deal to me, but the particular poems in this book........ are more of a somewhat-interesting historical artifact than anything else.
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philosophie's review

4.0

my first contact with kerouac's work and i decided to start by reading his poems. some may say that i should have read his novels beforehand, as his strength is in his prose, yet i beg to differ. i think his poems are filled with rhythm and musicality. it certainly was the best way to get sucked into his literary route.