Mexico City Blues

Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including *On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans,* and *Lonesome Traveler* -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in *Mexico City Blues,* his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most distinctive contribution to music.