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	1 Kerouac, Jack; Creeley, Robert: Book of Dreams Softcover, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2001 0872863808 / 9780872863804 Very Good, 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 360 pages; Tall softcover, very slight edge wear. A few light smudges on page ends. Former price and date inside cover in pen. Text clean and unmarked. "This new edition of the primary beat's private dream diaries presents the whole of Kerouac's original manuscript, including some 200-odd dreams not published in the initial selection (1961). More or less liberated from the requirements of the Beat swagger, Kerouac's writing is at times blissfully uncool, evoking an almost naive and sentimental sensibility: " this kitty was an angel, and spoke the truth"; "nobody loves me 'cause there's no me." Correspondences between some dream characters and their counterparts in the novels are not accidental, and are correlated in a prologue (and by poet Robert Creeley, in an insightful introduction). But many facets of Kerouac's oeuvre appear here much less polished, and more naked and powerful: " My mother and I are arm in arm on the floor, I'm crying afraid to die, she's blissful and has one leg in pink sexually out between me, and I'm thinking 'Even on the verge of death women think of love & snaky affection' Women? who's dreaming this?" Lost love, madness, castration, cats that speak, cats in danger of their lives, people giving birth to cats, grade school classrooms, Mel Torme, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tolstoy and Genet all make repeated appearances, lending the collection a repetitive, nonprogrammatic logic and exposing an unfamiliar sort of vulnerable beauty in Kerouac's iconic persona." Price: 5.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Kerouac, Jack: Desolation Angels Softcover, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 1980  Very Good-, Tall softcover with some edge wear and minor spots and smudges on page ends. Small pen mark at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouac's life just before the publication of On the Road--as told through his fictional self--Jack Duluoz. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it." Price: 3.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Kerouac, Jack; Allen, Donald (ed.): Old Angel Midnight Softcover; Third Printing, Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, CA, 2001 0912516976 / 9780912516974 Good+, 0.3 x 7.8 x 5.4 Inches; 89 pages; Light water stain and slight rippling at bottom corner of pages and back cover. Text clean and unmarked. "Culled from five notebooks, the writing presented here--one continuous prose poem--spans 1956-59, a period when Kerouac (1922-1969) had immersed himself in Buddhist theory. Offbeat, sometimes preposterous references to religion are to be found throughout: "This holy and all universe is a wonderful white wild power, why, hell, should, heaven, interfere, words, waiting, flesh, sure, I know . . ." While it seems redundant to call anything by Kerouac "spontaneous," Beat critic and biographer Charters points out that Kerouac ( On the Road ) conceived of this work as a map of his subconscious, "without the end or narrative direction" that his novels often groped for. Thus even more unconstrained, he plays with words, puns, delights in juxtaposed sounds, invents new words and throws in foreign ones almost at random: "Shoot, pot, proms were flowery purple lilac Richmond eve roadsters redlegs sweetdolls . . ." Like Kerouac's other manuscripts, this material was kept from publication until after his widow's death." Price: 3.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Kerouac, Jack: Pomes All Sizes Softcover, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1992 0872862690 / 9780872862692 Very Good-, Pocket Poets Series #48; 0.55 x 6.22 x 4.65 Inches; 175 pages; Small paperback with some edge wear. This is the 1992 edition but it has the same ISBN as the one listed on Amazon as 2001 edition. A few light spots at bottom of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "This book, which Kerouac prepared for publication before his death in 1969, collects poems written between 1954 and 1965. Most are playful--comments about friends, variations on the sounds of words. Yet a few extremely sensitive longer pieces appear, including "Caritas," in which the poet runs after a barefoot beggar boy to give him money for shoes and then begins to doubt the boy's veracity. Other intriguing poems reflect the poet's religious concerns of the moment, running the gamut of Eastern and Western religions." Price: 3.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 Kerouac, Jack: Scattered Poems : Pocket Poet Series #28 Softcover, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1971 0872860647 / 9780872860643 Very Good+, 76 pages; Slim softcover with slight edge wear, text clean and unmarked. Includes "Daydreams for Ginsberg", "Lucien Midnight" and many others. Price: 3.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart