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VISIONS OF GERARD, by Jack Kerouac. With this story of a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., Beat Author Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace...
...revive these origins is illustrated in a new anthology, Poems from Black Africa (Indiana University Press; $4.95), edited by U.S. Negro Poet Langston Hughes. Some of the poets are self-consciously primitive, and a few of the English-speaking ones write with echoes of T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins. But they are also busy transcribing and translating traditional folk poetry and evolving what Anthologist Hughes hopefully describes as a literature that "walks with grace and already is beginning to achieve an individuality quite...
VISIONS OF GERARD by Jack Kerouac. 151 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...evoke childhood's lost garden of innocence when current fiction insists that there is no such thing and that the very young are very wicked, with tendencies to parricide and cannibalism. Thus it is both a pleasant and surprising experience to read Jack Kerouac's Visions of Gerard, which asserts the faith that a child has a better chance of being good than someone older who is already visited by corruption. Perhaps only someone known as a high-bellowing beatnik prose man, and thus a bit of a child himself, could have pulled off the unlikely feat...
...sells books," British Novelist-Critic John Wain came right out and announced the other day. He did not, however, examine the corollary proposition (which worried a more censorious generation) that books sell sex. In any case, The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme seems dedicated by Novelist Colin Wilson to the first of these notions. As to the second, the Diary will not sell sex, since the subject is presented at its worst-neither for play, passion nor procreation, but as a something-or-other that promotes the spiritual development of a prig. It is woeful stuff-the sort of Promethean...