Old Angel Midnight
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| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Poem Beat |
| Publisher | Grey Fox Press |
| Released | 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 89 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-91-251697-6 |
| Preceded by | Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) |
| Followed by | Good Blonde & Others (1993) |
Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by Jack Kerouac that was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956-1959 while Kerouac was fully ensconced in Buddhist studies and theory. Kerouac himself said of the poem, "Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddalada-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm doing, in Mexico, Morocco, New York, India or Pakistan, in Spanish, French, Aztec, Gaelic, Keltic, Kurd or Dravidian, the sounds of people yakking and of myself yakking among, ending finally in great intuitions of the sounds of tongues throughout the entire universe in all directions in and out forever. And it is the only book I've ever written in which I allow myself the right to say anything I want, absolutely and positively anything, since that's what you hear coming in that window... God in his Infinity wouldnt have had a world otherwise — Amen."
[edit] References
- 1993. Old Angel Midnight, ISBN 0-91-251697-6
| Books by Jack Kerouac |
| The Town and the City • On the Road • The Subterraneans • The Dharma Bums • Doctor Sax • Maggie Cassidy • Mexico City Blues • Book of Dreams • Tristessa • Visions of Cody • Lonesome Traveler • Big Sur • Visions of Gerard • Desolation Angels • Satori in Paris • Vanity of Duluoz • Pic • Scattered Poems • Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings • Old Angel Midnight • Good Blonde & Others • Orpheus Emerged • Book of Sketches • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) |
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