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Book of Haikus

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Regina Weinreich (Introduction by)Series:Penguin PoetsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-04-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142002643ISBN-10:014200264XUPC:9780142002643Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Haiku, Subjects & ThemesSize:6.19 x 5.02 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC29H8XFVC

Book of Haikus

A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy

"Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella."--Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142002643ISBN-10:014200264XUPC:9780142002643Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Haiku, Subjects & ThemesSize:6.19 x 5.02 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC29H8XFVC

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in...

Publisher: Penguin Books

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