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Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac (2001, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherGreyfox Press

ISBN-100912516976

ISBN-139780912516974

eBay Product ID (ePID)1026340

Product Key Features

Book TitleOld Angel Midnight

Number of Pages89 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicGeneral, American / General

GenrePoetry

AuthorJack Kerouac

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight4.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-014684

Preface byCharters, Ann

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisOld Angel Midnight (1959) was one result of Kerouac's automatic writing experiments in which he would spill his chemically inspired thoughts onto paper to see what came out. Though Kerouac was initially denounced by literary critics as an oddball, his spontaneous twistings and turnings of language rate well with those of Joyce and Stein, and time has proven him to be an important and enduringly popular American writer.- Library Review, Jack Kerouac says, 'Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddalda-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight . . . The only book I've ever written in which I allow myself the right to say anything I want . . .', " 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 notebooks between 1956-1959, what Kerouac called his "endless automatic writing piece" began while he shared a cabin with poet Gary Snyder. Kerouac tried to emulate Snyder's daily Buddhist meditation discipline, using the technique of "letting go" to free his mind for pure spontaneous writing, annotating the stream of words flowing through his consciousness in response to auditory stimuli and his own mental images. Kerouac continued his exercise in spontaneous composition over the next three years, including a period spent with William Burroughs in Tangiers. He made no revisions to the automatic writing entries in his notebooks, which were collected and transcribed for publication as originally written. Old Angel Midnight attests to the success of Kerouac's experiment and bears witness to his commitment to his craft, and to the pleasure he takes in writing: "I like the bliss of mind." " Old Angel Midnight is the illuminated notebook, the ur-text, of Kerouac vision/voice/language. The golden rule Catholicism of New England mind in kahoots with free time Godhead consciousness. This is true beat pleasure. This is our music."-- Thurston Moore

LC Classification NumberPS3521.E735O43 1993