Book of Sketches

Book of Sketches

infobox Book |
name = Book of Sketches
title_orig =
translator =


author = Jack Kerouac
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Poetry
Beat|Prose
publisher = Penguin Poets
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = Approx. 400 pages
isbn = ISBN 0-14-200215-1
introduction_by = George Condo

The "Book of Sketches" is a collection of spontaneous prose written by Jack Kerouac between 1952 and 1957. In 1951, it was suggested to Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." [liner notes] Over the course of the next few years Kerouac filled fifteen pocket sized notebooks with "sketch poems." After travelling across America and through Mexico in classic On the Road fashion, Kerouac sat down at his type writer and wrote the manuscript that came to be known as Book of Sketches.

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"Proving that sketches ain't verse But only What is."~~Jack Kerouac


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