Word: kerouac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photographs (most of which are from the collection of Allen Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes: the book is published in a limited edition of 2000. (The Harvard Coop Bookstore has a small pile of copies available.) It's divided into three sections; the first focuses on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, and Gregory Corso while they were living in New York just after World...
...second section the scene shifts to San Francisco and to a larger group of writers, including the young San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in the early days of the West Coast Beats. "Japhy Ryder" is a poet and Orientalist who lives in a hut in a Berkeley backyard and who spends much of his time sitting on the grass mats on the floor of his hut studying Oriental texts, and sipping tea. There are three pictures...
...third section shows some scenes in Mexico, Tangier, and Europe, the trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped...
Four days after Kerouac's death, Allen Ginsberg, just back from the funeral in Lowell, Massachusetts (Kerouac's hometown), spoke at a "National Teach-In on World Government," held at his and Jack's old school, Columbia. The "Teach-In" featured, among others, Herman Kahn, David Dellinger, and Allard Lowenstein. Ginsberg, in the Beat tradition of ignoring the world other people are talking about for his own vision of it, sang some very long Buddhist chants to the assembly, read from Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, and then from an elegiac poem on his friend's death, one that...
...Kerouac's death brought forth the last Beat poem...