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Author:	Jack Kerouac	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Penguin Group USA	ISBN-10:	0140287078
ISBN-13:	9780140287073	Subject:	Classics
Publication Year:	1999	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
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Kerouac's Buddhist writings, including story ideas, poems, fiction, letters, and journal entries. Kerouac compiled this collection in the mid-1950s, but the book was never published in his lifetime. It makes clear Kerouac's passionate commitment to Buddhism, of which he was a lifelong student.
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Length:	419 pages
Height:	11.0 in.
Width:	8.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	33.9 oz.

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Jack Kerouac's earliest foray into Buddhism is captured in a volume that includes poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, meditations, letter fragments, ideas, and much more, all assembled in the visually daring format Kerouac originally envisioned. Reprint.
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"[T]he intimate logbook of a period of restless self-uprooting, semivoluntary poverty, celibacy and asceticism....[P]erhaps no other Kerouac volume has given away so much 'inside' data about the writer. The chart of Kerouac's psyche that emerges from these notebook pages of purported Buddhism studies reveals a quicksilver instability never so fully reflected in his fiction....The bones of real suffering poke honestly through the melancholy self-dramatizing..." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Tom Clark (08/31/1997) As vast as Texas and as tangled as a Los Angeles freeway, the book is a hodgepodge of poems, prayers, sermons, scripture snippets, commentaries, essay and story fragments, dream sequences and journal entries. Though loaded with little gems ("I'm a farmer/I grow Nirvana") and some clever translations (the Tibetan chant "Om mani padme hum" is rendered "Amen ... The gem in the rags"), the book is a jumble. At least as literature. As autobiography, however, "Some of the Dharma" shines....Here we get Kerouac unburnished, raw: Kerouac the misogynist, the homophobe, the mama's boy, the deadbeat dad. But we also get a refreshingly honest depiction of one man's failed spiritual quest....Without a lama to watch over him, Kerouac made his own way along his own path. His Buddhist improvisations were as fresh as Charlie Parker's jazz or, for that matter, Kerouac's own "spontaneous bop prosody." "Some of the Dharma" is not, as Kerouac claimed, "a great book." It's not even as good as "Dharma Bums." But it provides a unique glimpse into the life of a man Allen Ginsberg rightly celebrated as the "new Buddha of American prose." Salon - Stephen Prothero (11/14/1997) "Begun as a series of notes addressed to another Beat Generation star, Allen Ginsberg, 'Some of the Dharma' is an ambitious effort to translate Buddhism into an American idiom. As vast as Texas and as tangled as a Los Angeles freeway, the book is a hodgepodge of poems, prayers, sermons, scripture snippets, commentaries, essay and story fragments, dream sequences and journal entries. Though loaded with little gems...,the book is a jumble. At least as literature. As autobiography, however, 'Some of the Dharma' shines.... In most of his novels, Kerouac appears as a likable character. Here, however, we get Kerouac unburnished, raw: Kerouac the misogynist, the homophobe, the mama's boy, the deadbeat dad. But we also get a refreshingly honest depiction of one man's failed spiritual quest." Salon - Stephen Prothero (11/17/1997)

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Some of the Dharma

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0140287078
Title : Some of the Dharma
EAN : 9780140287073
Authors : Jack Kerouac
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publication Date : 1999-11-01
Pages : 432
List Price (MSRP) : 30.00
Height : 1.2000 inches
Width : 8.5000 inches
Length : 10.6000 inches
Weight : 2.2000 pounds
Keywords : Authors, Kerouac, Jack, General, General AAS, Collections & Readers, Contemporary, Classics, Dharma, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Acceptable

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