Filter By Subjects
Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 20th century Correspondence Beat generation Beat generation Poetry Bohemianism United States Burroughs, William S 1914-1997 Correspondence Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 Correspondence Haiku, American Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 CorrespondenceFilter By Subjects
Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 20th century Correspondence Beat generation Beat generation Poetry Bohemianism United States Burroughs, William S 1914-1997 Correspondence Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 Correspondence Haiku, American Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 CorrespondenceKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Poets 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success a journey with deep roots inthe language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing. Published for the first time in book form, this is Kerouac's retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: "In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KERKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press; [distributed by Book People, Berkeley, Calif.] 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERSummary: Award-winning docu-drama about the king of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. Combines rare footage featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Zoot Sims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Presenting a glimpse into the private life of the misunderstood writer, this collection of letters from the 1960s and 1970s reveals the era in which Burroughs became an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012