The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac | 
Old Angel Midnight
by Jack Kerouac | 
Gasoline
by Gregory Corso | 
The Fall of America
by Allen Ginsberg | 
Book of Blues
by Jack Kerouac | 
San Francisco Blues
by Jack Kerouac | 
Scattered Poems
by Jack Kerouac | 
Poetry as Insurgent Art
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 
Mindfield
by Gregory Corso | 
Mexico City Blues
by Jack Kerouac | 
A Far Rockaway of the Heart
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 
Kaddish and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg | 
Book of Sketches
by Jack Kerouac | 
Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku
by Paul B. Janeczko | 
San Francisco Poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 
On Love and Barley
by Matsuo Basho |
The Cuckoo's Haiku
by Michael J. Rosen |
The complete poems
by Elizabeth Bishop | 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost | 
Crush
by Richard Siken |
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form's essence. He incorporated his 'American' haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this beautifully packaged volume, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haikus, from both published and unpublished sources. The result is a compact collection of more than five hundred poems that reveal a lesser known but important side of Jack Kerouac's literary legacy.