Book of Haikus [Paperback]

Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels areOn the Road,The Dharma Bums,Big Sur, andVisions of Cody.

Regina Weinreich teaches in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has published widely in a range of periodicals. She is the author of Kerouac'sSpontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction.

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BOOK OF HAIKUS

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 football scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he met Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. His first novel,The Town and the City,appeared in 1950, but it wasOn the Road,first published in 1957, that made Kerouac one of the most controversial and best-known writers of his time. Publication of his many other books followed, among themThe Subterraneans, Big Sur,andThe Dharma Bums,in which he describes his discovery of haiku. Kerouac’s books of poetry includeMexico City Blues, Scattered Poems, Pomes All Sizes, Heaven and Other Poemlӟ