Who is Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetr...
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Jack Kerouac Poems

  • One Flower
    One flower
    on the cliffside
    Nodding at the canyon
    ...
  • On Tears
    Tears is the break of my brow,
    The moony tempestuous
    Sitting downIn dark railyards
    When to see my motherâ??s face ...
  • Bus East
    Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
    5 years ago - other furies other losses -

    America's ...
  • Daydreams For Ginsberg
    I lie on my back at midnight
    hearing the marvelous strange chime
    of the clocks, and know it's mid-
    night and in that instant the whole ...
  • How To Meditate
    -lights out-
    fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
    ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
    the gland inside of my brain discharging ...
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City 7 Good 5 Haiku 4 Time 4 Heaven 4 Life 4 Rain 4 Mind 4 Brown 3 Love 3


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Jmmakabayantnt: “our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life.” -jack kerouac
Ofnecmi: “the only truth is music.” –jack kerouac
Krikkitmotel: i bring a sort of "jack kerouac" vibe that "my physical and mental health" really doesn't appreciate
Larkin63vtyjc: beat generation in new york: a walking tour of jack kerouac's city ucz8wxs
Geiselie: “maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — jack kerouac
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We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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