Book of Haikus

A masterful anthology of more than five hundred haiku poems by one of the leaders of the Beat Generation and author of On the Road explores Kerouac's experimentation with the concise poetic form as examples appeared in his journals, sketchbooks, recordings, notebooks, letters, and fiction. Original.

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