{"product_id":"book-gedv","title":"Scattered Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJust as Jack Kerouac upended the conventions of the novel with \u003cem\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/em\u003e, he also revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eBringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac's \u003cem\u003eScattered Poems \u003c\/em\u003eexemplifies the Beat Generation icon's innovative approach to language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eKerouac's poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. \u003cem\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, which includes the playfully instructive \"How to Meditate,\" the sensory \"San Francisco Blues,\" and an ode to Kerouac's fellow Beat Allen Ginsberg, is rich in striking images and strident urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eKerouac's widespread influences feel new and fresh in these poems, which echo the rhythm of improvisational jazz music and the centuries-old structure of Japanese haiku.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition, driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction, and expressed through spontaneous, uncensored writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49276870197552,"sku":"BDgedv","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49276870230320,"sku":"ZEgedv","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49276870263088,"sku":"ZMgedv","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gedv-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775977400","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gedv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}