Re: Jazz Poetry
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> Zod wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Blues > > "I want to be considered a jazz poet, blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway through a chorus to halfway into the next." -Jack Kerouac > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From the Usenet poetry newsgroup archives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Blues "I want to be considered a jazz poet, blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from chorus to chorus or from halfway through a chorus to halfway into the next." -Jack Kerouac "Mexico City Blues" was very inspiring reading for me in 1974, anc early view of the possibilities of the haiku form of poetry. This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=660030815#660030815 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655