• Mexico City Blues is a long poem by Jack Kerouac, composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959. Written between 1954 and 1957...
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    Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural...
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    Parrot Fever in 2005. On June 5, 1996, Kerouac died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a day after her spleen was removed. She had suffered kidney failure five...
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    November 21, 2013. Kerouac, Jack (1959). Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses). Grove Press. p. 113. "Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac". Poemhunter.com. May 4,...
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    Charlie Parker (redirect from Cool blues)
    In 1959, Jack Kerouac completed his only full-length poetry work, Mexico City Blues, with two poems about Parker's importance, writing in those works...
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    Adolfo de la Parra (category Mexican rock musicians)
    February 1946) is a Mexican musician, best known as the drummer for the American blues rock band Canned Heat. Parra was born in Mexico City and played in bands...
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  • (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971) Pull My Daisy (late 1940s) Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956;...
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  • and friend Joan Vollmer shared an apartment on 118th Street in New York City which came to be frequented by many of the then unknown Beats, among them...
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    read on October 7, 1955, before 100 people (including Kerouac, up from Mexico City). Lamantia read poems of his late friend John Hoffman. At his first public...
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    Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010...
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