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Isaac Gewitz curated this exhibition and wrote this exceptionally good catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This outstanding exhibition of Kerouac's life and work was seen by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The sentences of this poem are appropriated from the texts of famous authors who are credited on the back of the folder. William Allen: Folded publication with an enigmatic 'punctuation' design, of an exclamation mark, a question mark, a comma and a full stop, printed on the cover in black on white stock; contains four loose leaf sheets slipped inside, printed in a variety of colours on cream stock, with a poem on each page dedicated to one of these grammatical symbols: from each 'mark' the words - plagiarized from various canonical texts - spiral outwards, thereby creating a visual poem of dispersed and fragmentary text. The colophon has been printed on the back of the folding cover, which includes linear transcriptions of each of the poems; such as in "!": 'you're nothing but a pack of cards: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland /goats and monkeys: Shakespeare, Othello / oh that those lips had language: William Cowper, 'On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk.' --...

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This is a pirated edition of the most experimental work produced by Kerouac. One part was initially pubished in Big Table No.1, 1959, the other in Evergreen Review Vol.7, No.33, 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint of the shaped poem that appears on page 54 of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that "set them free." Based on Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïvete and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the...

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel...

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A deluxe vopu of Mallarme's 'Un Coup de Des' (1914) is offered for sale and is extensively annotated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.