Mexico City Blues

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Mexico City Blues
1st edition
Author	Jack Kerouac
Cover artist	Roy Kuhlman
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Grove Press
Publication date	1959
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	0-8021-3060-7
OCLC	20993609
Preceded by	Maggie Cassidy (1959)
Followed by	Book of Dreams (1960)

Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. In his own words, Kerouac wanted to be known as a jazz poet and with this book he sought to write in a way consistent with how a musician would play jazz. ^{[citation needed]}

References

1959. Mexico City Blues, ISBN 0-8021-3060-7

v t e Works by Jack Kerouac

Fiction	The Sea is My Brother (1942) And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008; with William S. Burroughs) The Town and the City (1950) On the Road (1957) The Subterraneans (1958) The Dharma Bums (1958) Doctor Sax (1959) Maggie Cassidy (1959) Book of Dreams (1960) Tristessa (1960) Visions of Cody (1960) Lonesome Traveler (1960) Big Sur (1962) Visions of Gerard (1963) Desolation Angels (1965) Satori in Paris (1966) Vanity of Duluoz (1968) Pic (1971) Orpheus Emerged (2002)

Poetry	Mexico City Blues (1959) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) Scattered Poems (1971) Old Angel Midnight (1973) Book of Haikus (2003) Book of Sketches (2006)

Other books	Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) Good Blonde & Others (1993) Beat Generation (2005)

Audio	Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) Blues and Haikus (1960) Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997) Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)

Related articles	One Fast Move or I'm Gone Bibliography

External links

http://www.archive.org/details/Ginsber_Mexico_City_Blues_July_1988_88P044 (Class on Mexico City Blues, taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University in July 1988)

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