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ALSO BY JACK KEROUAC

THE DULUOZ LEGEND

Visions of Gerard
Doctor Sax
Maggie Cassidy
The Sea is My Brother:
The Lost Novel
Vanity of Duluoz
On the Road
Visions of Cody
The Subterraneans
Tristessa
Lonesome Traveler
Desolation Angels
The Dharma Bums
Book of Dreams
Big Sur
Satori in Paris

POETRY

Mexico City Blues
Scattered Poems
Pomes All Sizes
Heaven and Other Poems
Book of Blues
Book of Haikus
Book of Sketches

OTHER WORK

The Town and the City
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Some of the Dharma
Old Angel Midnight
Good Blonde & Others
Pull My Daisy
Trip Trap (with Albert Saijo and
Lew Welch)
Pic
The Portable Jack Kerouac
Selected Letters: 1940-1956
Selected Letters: 1957-1969
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories
and Other Writings
Door Wide Open (with Joyce
Johnson)
Orpheus Emerged
Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings
Windblown World: Journals
1947-1954
Beat Generation: A Play
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Youre a Genius All the Time: Belief
and Technique for Modern Prose
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their
Tanks (with William S. Burroughs)

ALSO BY ALLEN GINSBERG

POETRY

Collected Poems 1947-1997
Airplane Dreams
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems
1986-1992
Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997
Empty Mirror
The Fall of America: Poems of These
States 1965-1971
First Blues
The Gates of Wrath
Howl and Other Poems
Howl Annotated
Illuminated Poems
Iron Horse
Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960
Luminous Dreams
Mind Breath: Poems 1972-1977
Planet News 1961-1967
Plutonian Ode: Poems, 1977-1980
Poems All Over the Place
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960
Selected Poems 1947-1995
White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985

PROSE AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Allen Ginsberg Photographs
Allen Verbatim
As Ever (with Neal Cassady)
The Book of Martyrdom & Artifice:
First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
Composed on the Tongue
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays
1952-1995
Family Business: Selected Letters
Between a Father & Son
(with Louis Ginsberg)
Indian Journals
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
Journals: Mid-Fifties: 1954-1958
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg
and Gary Snyder
Snapshot Poetics
Spontaneous Mind: Selected
Interviews, 1958-1996
Straight Hearts Delight
(with Peter Orlovsky)
The Yage Letters
(with William S. Burroughs)

Ive all these two days spent filing old letters, taking them out of old envelopes, clipping the pages together, putting them away... hundreds of old letters from Allen, Burroughs, Cassady, enuf to make you cry the enthusiasms of younger men... how bleak we become. And fame kills all. Someday The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac will make America cry.

Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, May 25, 1961

EDITORS INTRODUCTION

Let you not to the marriage of true minds admit impedimentslove is not love which alters when it altercation findsO no! tis an ever fixd lark.

The twenty-two-year-old Jack Kerouac paraphrasing William Shakespeare in his first letter to the seventeen-year-old Allen Ginsberg

It is now common to lament the gradual demise of the handwritten or hand-typed letter over the past decades. Significant blame is often placed, and rightly so, on the radical lowering of phone rates. Up through the mid-1960s, for many people calling long-distance across country was a rare and costly luxury, only to be indulged in for an emergency or to share news of a birth or death. But as technology improved, people could increasingly afford to pick up the telephone and talk through the details of their lives with friends and loved ones, instead of taking the time to sit down and write. More recently, the advent of e-mail has further diminished the flow of snail mail correspondence.

The question now becomes whether writers who prove to be of lasting interest, and who correspond extensively about their lives and their craft via e-mail, will take the trouble to maintain accessible records for use by future scholars and readers. But whatever lies ahead in this regard, it is unlikely we will often see a body of correspondence between two important writers that yields more insight into their work and their lives than does the collection of letters and postcards between Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Their prodigious output is remarkable enough merely for its sheer volume and for the longevity of the literary friendship enacted and developed through it. But it is truly extraordinary in its range, quality, and intimacy. An extended correspondence of such richness is a rare thing.

Kerouac and Ginsberg have proved to be two of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Kerouacs On the Road and Ginsbergs Howl are seminal works that have inspired innumerable readers, including many artists working well outside the field of literature, who cite these books as liberating and life changing. Kerouacs novels had a great impact on the way American writers write and helped shape the worldview of several generations. Ginsbergs poetry, his compelling public performances, and his role as an activist and teacher made him a cultural force for decades. The legacy of their writing and their lives continues to unfold, to such an extent that their place in history cannot yet be definitively assessed.

This selection makes a significant contribution to both their bodies of work, and to the understanding of that work. Two-thirds of these letters have not been published before. The Ginsberg-Kerouac friendship was the pivotal axis for the literary movement and cultural construct that became known as the Beat Generation and was essential to both men throughout their adult, professional-writing lives. Their unique quarter-century of correspondence offers passionate self-portraits, a vivid record of the cultural scene they helped create, key insights into the literary explorations at the core of the Beat movement, a unique chronicle of their mutually encouraged spiritual explorations, and a moving record of a deep, personal friendship.

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