I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouacs most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked choruses, it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature Allen Ginsberg A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have...

Kerouacs last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy. Pic, or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.