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Will Dockery
May 14, 2013, 9:31:51 AM5/14/13
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Okay, I was closer to Kerouac's "Blues" than "Pops" in the goblledeegook
rhyme poems discussed on Horatio's "Just as Well" thread, as the Pops are
basically American Haiku:
http://www.docudharma.com/diary/2798/
"...Jack Kerouac called them "pops," Western haikus. He didn't always stick
to the correct 17 syllable count but many of his images did "pop" from his
pen.
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway
this one is famous, and one of my favorites:
Early morning yellow flowers,
thinking about
the drunkards of Mexico.
Jack spent a lot of time in Mexico. Stayed with Burroughs there for a
while. Did junk, drank liquor and wrote his Mexico City Blues.
The Blues was written as one long poem with different "choruses." As Jack
said:
I want to be considered a jazz poet
blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam
session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses;
my ideas vary and sometimess roll from
chorus to chorus or from halfway through
a chorus to halfway into the next.
rhyme poems discussed on Horatio's "Just as Well" thread, as the Pops are
basically American Haiku:
http://www.docudharma.com/diary/2798/
"...Jack Kerouac called them "pops," Western haikus. He didn't always stick
to the correct 17 syllable count but many of his images did "pop" from his
pen.
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway
this one is famous, and one of my favorites:
Early morning yellow flowers,
thinking about
the drunkards of Mexico.
Jack spent a lot of time in Mexico. Stayed with Burroughs there for a
while. Did junk, drank liquor and wrote his Mexico City Blues.
The Blues was written as one long poem with different "choruses." As Jack
said:
I want to be considered a jazz poet
blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam
session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses;
my ideas vary and sometimess roll from
chorus to chorus or from halfway through
a chorus to halfway into the next.
THE COLONEL
May 14, 2013, 1:47:49 PM5/14/13
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> Okay, I was closer to Kerouac's "Blues" than "Pops" in the goblledeegook
> rhyme poems discussed on Horatio's "Just as Well" thread, as the Pops are
> basically American Haiku:
>
> http://www.docudharma.com/diary/2798/
>
> "...Jack Kerouac called them "pops," Western haikus. He didn't always
> stick to the correct 17 syllable count but many of his images did "pop"
> from his pen.
>
> Missing a kick
> at the icebox door
> It closed anyway
> this one is famous, and one of my favorites:
>
>
> Early morning yellow flowers,
> thinking about
> the drunkards of Mexico.
> Jack spent a lot of time in Mexico. Stayed with Burroughs there for a
> while. Did junk, drank liquor and wrote his Mexico City Blues.
I am a modern day Jack Kerouac.
> rhyme poems discussed on Horatio's "Just as Well" thread, as the Pops are
> basically American Haiku:
>
> http://www.docudharma.com/diary/2798/
>
> "...Jack Kerouac called them "pops," Western haikus. He didn't always
> stick to the correct 17 syllable count but many of his images did "pop"
> from his pen.
>
> Missing a kick
> at the icebox door
> It closed anyway
> this one is famous, and one of my favorites:
>
>
> Early morning yellow flowers,
> thinking about
> the drunkards of Mexico.
> Jack spent a lot of time in Mexico. Stayed with Burroughs there for a
> while. Did junk, drank liquor and wrote his Mexico City Blues.
RVG
May 16, 2013, 5:54:37 AM5/16/13
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Le 14/05/2013 15:31, Will Dockery a �crit :
Some time ago I released an album mixing my music with parts of
interviews of Kerouac (in French, for Radio Canada) and ending on a
piano improvisation with recordings of Kerouac reading some of his haikus.
http://rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/track/american-haikus
--
"Shut your eyes and see."
James Joyce, Ulysses
http://rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/rvgronoff
http://bluedusk.blogspot.com/
interviews of Kerouac (in French, for Radio Canada) and ending on a
piano improvisation with recordings of Kerouac reading some of his haikus.
http://rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/track/american-haikus
--
"Shut your eyes and see."
James Joyce, Ulysses
http://rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/rvgronoff
http://bluedusk.blogspot.com/
Will Dockery
May 17, 2013, 9:41:49 AM5/17/13
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"RVG" <not....@themoment.invalid.org> wrote in message
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between English and French, as he spoke French from his birth until about
five years old as his main language, and has stated that he still "thought"
in French all his life. I was reading a kind of sad commentary on Jack
Kerouac by his old Dharma Bums comrade Gary Snyder, wondering just what
great work, or interesting work, Kerouac would have sure written if he'd
survived:
From Poets on the Peaks, by John Suiter. Pg. 257-58. From Gary Snyder...
"When I think of Jack now, I remember him as a dear friend and comrade, and
a man from whom I got a new sense of writing, an eye on prose that was
really refreshing," said Snyder at age seventy. "but also there's the
sadness of a somewhat lost and wasted talent-not that he didn't produce a
lot, but if he had had a better physical and psychological health, it would
have been interesting to see what else he might have done, because there was
still obviously more maturing possible there, and what people do in their
maturity can be kind of interesting. So, there's a certain sadness about
Jack's life. But what he did was certainly remarkable."
RVG
May 18, 2013, 9:10:39 AM5/18/13
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Le 17/05/2013 15:41, Will Dockery a �crit :
of Victor Hugo. Kerouac had read all the great French poets and
novelists from Flaubert to Proust and from Hugo to Rimbaud.
Unfortunately since French was taught as a foreign language at the
public school of Lowell, he never got to acquire enough grammar to be
able to write in French.
Although a manuscript has been found after his death of a novella
written in phonetic "joual" dialect, but it's really terrible.
> I was reading a kind of sad commentary on Jack Kerouac by his old
> Dharma Bums comrade Gary Snyder, wondering just what great work, or
> interesting work, Kerouac would have sure written if he'd survived:
>
His brain and liver were destroyed by alcohol. Unlike John Coltrane
who's been able to create great music until his last moments, Kerouac's
mental abilities had been severely diminished because he never stopped
drinking even after discovering he had cirrhosis.
His last interview on Italian television was awful, reminds me of the
late Serge Gainsbourg a few months before he too passed out of a heart
attack because of too much drinking and smoking.
> From Poets on the Peaks, by John Suiter. Pg. 257-58. From Gary
> Snyder...
>
> "When I think of Jack now, I remember him as a dear friend and
> comrade, and a man from whom I got a new sense of writing, an eye on
> prose that was really refreshing," said Snyder at age seventy. "but
> also there's the sadness of a somewhat lost and wasted talent-not
> that he didn't produce a lot, but if he had had a better physical and
> psychological health, it would have been interesting to see what else
> he might have done, because there was still obviously more maturing
> possible there, and what people do in their maturity can be kind of
> interesting. So, there's a certain sadness about Jack's life. But
> what he did was certainly remarkable."
Exactly. Maybe Jimi Hendrix would have ended up being a jerk too.
Rimbaud did - a gun and slave-monger in Africa, after spending his youth
fighting for freedom with the Communards (the French rebels, not the
British pop band).
> Thanks, RVG, I've always suspected that Kerouac might be a great
> bridge between English and French, as he spoke French from his birth
> until about five years old as his main language, and has stated that
> he still "thought" in French all his life.
He could read French fluently thanks to his uncle who was an avid reader
> bridge between English and French, as he spoke French from his birth
> until about five years old as his main language, and has stated that
> he still "thought" in French all his life.
of Victor Hugo. Kerouac had read all the great French poets and
novelists from Flaubert to Proust and from Hugo to Rimbaud.
Unfortunately since French was taught as a foreign language at the
public school of Lowell, he never got to acquire enough grammar to be
able to write in French.
Although a manuscript has been found after his death of a novella
written in phonetic "joual" dialect, but it's really terrible.
> I was reading a kind of sad commentary on Jack Kerouac by his old
> Dharma Bums comrade Gary Snyder, wondering just what great work, or
> interesting work, Kerouac would have sure written if he'd survived:
>
who's been able to create great music until his last moments, Kerouac's
mental abilities had been severely diminished because he never stopped
drinking even after discovering he had cirrhosis.
His last interview on Italian television was awful, reminds me of the
late Serge Gainsbourg a few months before he too passed out of a heart
attack because of too much drinking and smoking.
> From Poets on the Peaks, by John Suiter. Pg. 257-58. From Gary
> Snyder...
>
> "When I think of Jack now, I remember him as a dear friend and
> comrade, and a man from whom I got a new sense of writing, an eye on
> prose that was really refreshing," said Snyder at age seventy. "but
> also there's the sadness of a somewhat lost and wasted talent-not
> that he didn't produce a lot, but if he had had a better physical and
> psychological health, it would have been interesting to see what else
> he might have done, because there was still obviously more maturing
> possible there, and what people do in their maturity can be kind of
> interesting. So, there's a certain sadness about Jack's life. But
> what he did was certainly remarkable."
Rimbaud did - a gun and slave-monger in Africa, after spending his youth
fighting for freedom with the Communards (the French rebels, not the
British pop band).
Will Dockery
May 18, 2013, 2:42:44 PM5/18/13
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Yes, Kerouac did have a sad, and embarrassing ending... the TV appearance on
William F. Buckley's Firing Line was similarly hard to watch.
William F. Buckley's Firing Line was similarly hard to watch.
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