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Mexico City Blues : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mexico City Blues
''Mexico City Blues'' is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, his Buddhism, and his disappointment at his failure to publish a novel between 1950's ''The Town and the City'' and 1957's ''On the Road''. ==Writing and publication== Kerouac began writing the choruses that became ''Mexico City Blues'' while living with Bill Garver, a heroin addict and friend of William S. Burroughs, in Mexico City in 1955. Written under the influence of marijuana and morphine, choruses were defined only by the size of Kerouac's notebook page. Three of the choruses (52, 53 and 54) are transcriptions of Garver's speech, while others sought to transcribe sounds, and others Kerouac's own thoughts. The choruses include references to real figures including Burroughs and Gregory Corso, as well as religious figures and themes. After finishing ''Mexico City Blues'', while still in Mexico City, Kerouac wrote ''Tristessa''. In October 1957, after Kerouac achieved fame with ''On the Road'', he sent ''Mexico City Blues'' to City Lights Books in the hopes of publication in their Pocket Poets series. In 1958, after the publication of ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac's friend Allen Ginsberg tried to sell the book to Grove Press and New Directions Press. It was eventually published by Grove in November 1959.
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