Subseries 2.3: Poetry

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1. Typescript draft, revised. "Book of Blues / San Francisco Blues / Blues / Mac Dougald [sic] St. Blues / Blues / Orizaba Blues / Desolation / Orlanda / Blues / Poems." Holograph note: "(Cover by Paul Blake Jr. my nephew)." Also includes "Richmond Hill Blue
2. Original black spring binder for "Book of Blues."
3. Holograph title page "Book of Haikus / Chief Crazy Horse looks north / with tearful eyes / The first snow flurries." With holograph and typescript haikus. Originally bound in black spring binder with Master's thesis by Granville Hicks Jones. With press cu
4. Copy of typescript of Columbia University Master's degree thesis by Granville Hicks Jones: "Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac: Common Origins and Common Aims." Holograph note by Kerouac: "Master's thesis / Around 1960 / Granville / Hicks / Jone
5. Original black spring binder for holograph haikus and Granville Hicks Jones's Master's thesis
6. Notebook [All American / Memorandum Book] labeled "MC(1)." Begins on page numbered "1" with "Butte Magic of Ignorance." ["Mexico City Blues."]
7. Notebook [Notas] labeled "MC(2)." ["Mexico City Blues."]
8. Notebook [TAQUIGRAFIA] labeled "MC" and "Duluoz Legend - Tristessa." Includes material for "Mexico City Blues," "Duluoz Legend - Book of Dreams," and novel "Tristessa." Rear cover labeled "T." One entry dated "Sept. 10 / Saturday / Afternoon / 2 P.M. / Me
9. Notebook [Block / De / Apuntes / No.14] labeled "More Mexico Blues" and "Washington / DC / Blues / Poems 1957." Includes "Orizaba Rooftop / Blues / In Choruses / Oct. 26, '56," and "On the Road insert," and three portrait sketches. ["Mexico City Blues."]
10. Notebook [CUADERNO PARA TAQUIGRAFIA], labeled "MC(4)." Begins with "Mexico City Blues - Final Hymn Songs." Includes "Brakeman on the Railroad," and notes for "Book of Dreams." ["Mexico City Blues."]
11. Typescript, revised: "Mexico City Blues." With typesetter's and editor's marks. Paginated 1-121
12. Holograph notebook "1943 / 4 Seasons Poem." Contains "A Tone-Poem: New England."
13. Holograph poems. "Examples of Constructionism - 1944." Includes "Rimbaud I, II, III," "Hearst," "The Poet and the Hero." Later holograph note: "(Burroughs now calls this 'cuttings' - 1962 JK)."
14. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "I had been driven there by her virtue.") On verso: typescript list of colloquium authors and titles
15. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "It is not in my power to forget.")
16. Holograph poem "Louie's song to God." Written on verso of Columbia Pictures Corporation Eastern Story Department
17. Holograph poem "The Moor of Myself - A sonnet."
18. Holograph poem "On Hearing Beethoven's Prometheus overture."
19. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "The pansophist dreams of the perfect woman.") Verso has autobiographical fragment. (Begins: "That was the night Ginsberg bought Edie the ink eradicator.")
20. Typescript draft, with holograph title-page: "Pomes All Sizes / Other Odd / Poems Loose / (other than Blues) (which are strictly disciplined to one notebook page small - chorus sizes - ) These are / just regular poems by / Jack Kerouac." With original bla
21. Black spring folder, unlabeled. Previously contained typescript draft "Pomes All Sizes / Other Odd / Poems Loose / (other than Blues) (which are strictly disciplined to one notebook page small - chorus sizes - ) These are / just regular poems by / Jack Ke
22. Holograph poem "The Prisoner's Song (Written in Bronx Jail) 1944."
23. Holograph four-line poem titled "A Tragic Sonnet." [Cursive script in ink on verso is Sebastian Sampas's hand - according to T. Sampas, 11/24/98.]
24. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "When summer which has lost my love . . .")
25. Holograph poem "The Wooing."
26. Holograph draft of poems, untitled. Came with miscellaneous printed papers in a folder found at the bottom of a drawer. [See series 15 and 16]