Pomes All Sizes

A Collection Of Poems By Beat Generation Author Jack Kerouac, Written Between 1954 And 1965 About Mexico, Tangier, Berkeley, The Bowery, God, Drugs, And Other Topics. Introduction / Allen Ginsberg -- Bus East -- Hitchhiker -- Neal In Court -- Bowery Blues -- On Waking From A Dream Of Robert Fournier -- God -- Haiku Berkeley -- Poim -- Various Little Pomes -- Two Dharma Notes -- Gatha -- Beginning With A Few Haikus -- [enlightenments] -- On Ether -- Letter To Allen 1955 -- Mexico Rooftop -- Mexican Loneliness -- The Last Hotel -- Berkeley Song In F Major -- A Sudden Sketch Poem -- Poem Written In The Zoco Chico -- Three Tangier Poems -- Tangier Poem -- Poem -- Flies -- Poem -- How To Meditate -- Buddha -- Poem -- Haiku -- My Views On Religion -- Lady -- Caritas -- Poem -- Lil Poem On Louis Ferdinand Celine -- Skid Row Wine -- The Moon -- Poem -- The Thrashing Doves -- The Sea-shroud -- My Gang -- Pax -- Haiku -- Prayer -- Poem -- Angel Mine -- Perm -- Poems Of The Buddhas Of Old -- Morphine -- Silly Goofball Pomes -- Pome -- 3 Poems About Titles Of Novels -- To Lou Little -- Airapetianz -- If I Were Jesus, God -- Idiot -- Old Western Movies -- Woman -- Hymn -- Goofball Blues -- Goofball Sillypomes -- Drunken Scribbling Poem -- Running Through -- Chinese Poem Song -- Sken 3 -- Cognac Blues -- Beau Bebe -- The Shack Of Desolation -- Poor Sottish Kerouac -- Long Island Chinese Poem Rain -- Pome -- Pome On Doctor Sax -- A Curse At The Devil. Jack Kerouac ; Introduction By Allen Ginsberg. "The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine, long elegy in 'Canuckian Child Patoi Probably Medieval . . . an English blues.' But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, Pomes of All Sizes today would seem to be more than a sum of it parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road."--BOOK JACKET.