- Mexico City Blues
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Mexico City Blues 
1st editionAuthor(s) Jack Kerouac Country United States Language English Genre(s) Poetry Publisher Grove Press Publication date 1959 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) ISBN 0-8021-3060-7 OCLC Number 20993609 Preceded by Maggie Cassidy
(1959)Followed by Book of Dreams
(1960)Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. In his own words, Kerouac wanted to be known as a jazz poet and with this book he sought to write in a way consistent with how a musician would play jazz.[citation needed]
References
- 1959. Mexico City Blues, ISBN 0-8021-3060-7
Works by Jack Kerouac Fiction The Town and the City (1950) · On the Road (1957) · The Subterraneans (1958) · The Dharma Bums (1958) · Doctor Sax (1959) · Maggie Cassidy (1959) · Book of Dreams (1960) · Tristessa (1960) · Visions of Cody (1960) · Lonesome Traveler (1960) · Big Sur (1962) · Visions of Gerard (1963) · Desolation Angels (1965) · Satori in Paris (1966) · Vanity of Duluoz (1968) · Pic (1971) · Orpheus Emerged (2002) · And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008; with William S. Burroughs)Poetry Mexico City Blues (1959) · The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) · Scattered Poems (1971) · Old Angel Midnight (1973) · Book of Haikus (2003) · Book of Sketches (2006)Other books Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) · Good Blonde & Others (1993) · Beat Generation (2005)Audio Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) · Blues and Haikus (1960) · Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) · The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) · Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)Bibliography · Duluoz Legend External links
- http://www.archive.org/details/Ginsber_Mexico_City_Blues_July_1988_88P044 (Class on Mexico City Blues, taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University in July 1988)
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