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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I generally despise I-95 &amp; there&#8217;s nothing about the Memorial Day Weekend that is apt to make me love it any more deeply. As it happened, I had to view the aftermath of what appeared to be a fatal accident near </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Aberdeen</span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Maryland</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, on my way back from </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Falls Church</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>VA</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, where I had stayed with Lynne Dreyer &amp; her family after my reading at Bridge Street Books. As soon as I could, I headed off 95 &amp; took a route along two-lane roads from  </span><st1:place><st1:City><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Darlington</span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Maryland</span></st1:State></st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> up through </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Parkesburg</span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:State></st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, before cutting over to the 30-Bypass &amp; 202 for the last leg home. In both directions, Saturday <i>and</i> Monday, I listened to a &#8220;radio play&#8221; recording of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dxo6l"><span style='color:black'>Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake</span></a> </i>that </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Krishna</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> gave me as a present for Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As an audio-book, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Doctor Sax </i>is a hoot &amp; a half, as a number of readers work their through a screenplay Kerouac wrote based on his novel, accompanied by an occasional sound-effect (balls scattering on a pool table, etc.) and a reasonably decent score by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Medeski"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Medeski</span></span></a>. Of the 14 voices heard on this 2-CD affair, two have considerably more than half of all the air time &#8211; the narrator, spoken by the late Robert Creeley, the one role in this project that demands (and gets) a fair amount of quiet subtlety, &amp; a variety of characters all given voice by poet-rock star Jim Carroll, who generally does a good job distinguishing between his roles &amp; pulls off an utterly spooky Peter <span class=SpellE>Lorre</span> imitation in the process. Doctor Sax is spoken by Grateful Dead lyricist &amp; poet Robert Hunter, who frankly sounds too healthy for a character that seems to have been based in part on Kerouac&#8217;s roommate during the penning of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sax</i>, William S. Burroughs. The wizard Faustus is portrayed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who plays the role as tho he <span class=GramE>were</span> the old character actor <a href="../../../../My%20Documents/Ron/The%20Work/Critical%20Writing/Blog2/Gabby%20Hayes"><span style='color:black'>Gabby Hayes</span></a>. All the players appear to be having a blast &amp; the pleasure is contagious. I was able to listen to the entire project straight through twice with only one day between sessions &amp; never once suffered a moment&#8217;s boredom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sax </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>is a novel that was published, like so much of Kerouac&#8217;s writing, to mixed reviews. This is especially true for those books that focus not on Kerouac&#8217;s life as <span class=GramE>an</span> wandering anti-authoritarian minstrel &amp; wastrel but his childhood. But in some sense, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sax </i>is to Kerouac&#8217;s understanding of himself what <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Prelude </i>was to Wordsworth. This is really the tale of the growth of a poet&#8217;s mind, but as a troubled kid (and one who doesn&#8217;t get it that he&#8217;s troubled). Functionally, the story operates as a series of concentric tales, each more extreme (and disturbed) than the one before. In the first, Jacky <span class=SpellE>Duluoz</span> is a kid who plays hooky in order to stay home and play fantasy games of horse racing using marbles &amp; ball-bearings. In the second, Jacky is both detective &amp; miscreant in a mystery to catch The Black Thief<span class=GramE>,.</span> <span class=GramE>a neighborhood criminal who specializes in stealing the toys of <span class=SpellE>Duluoz</span>&#8217; friends.</span> The Black Thief&#8217;s undoing comes as a result of leaving his taunting notes behind on the same orange paper that young <span class=SpellE>Duluoz</span> uses to practice his writing skills, literally trying to verbally sketch out commonplace physical elements of the neighborhood (50-plus years later, this is recognizable as a classic writing exercise, but it&#8217;s fascinating to see Kerouac suggest that he was compulsively working at his skills at depiction at what must have been no more than the age of ten). The third tale is <span class=SpellE>Duluoz</span>&#8217; interactions with the realms of the unknown, represented by Faustus, Count <span class=SpellE>Condu</span>, Doctor Sax, various vamps &amp; wizard wives, and of course the Great World Snake that comes to threaten the world until it is carried off by a giant bird <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>SURROUNDED BY MY DOVES! MY DOVES, MY YOUNG AND SILLY DOVES<span class=GramE>!......</span> BIRDS OF PARADISE COMING TO SAVE MANKIND!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As Sax puts it.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Kerouac&#8217;s mythology here is a <span class=SpellE>mashup</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>avant le <span class=SpellE>lettre</span></i> of Catholicism, Central European ghost stories &amp; some over-the-top Freudian remnants that work precisely because they are such a motley combination. This is intermingled with some extraordinary instances of description, most of which comes through Creeley&#8217;s role, and a great ear for dialog. For example, what makes the above passage work is precisely the word &#8220;silly&#8221; in a context that seems so very jarring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The production and direction of the entire project at the hands of Kerouac&#8217;s nephew <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1486389"><span style='color:black'>Jim Sampas</span></a> is rough, but serviceable. When Sampas first started taking active control of Kerouac&#8217;s archive I recall worrying that Sampas wasn&#8217;t going to get it and that he would want simply beatify his uncle whose very flaws &#8211; such as the deeply creepy sentimentalism toward Kerouac&#8217;s mother &#8211; really prove to be driving forces for Kerouac, even if what they drove him to was his much too young death from alcoholism. But in fact Sampas seems to be in touch with both the Kerouac who is appallingly crude &amp; the one who is, for better or worse, the <span class=SpellE>Jimi</span> Hendrix of fictional prose. Under Sampas' direction, you can hear this troupe of friends making it up as they go along. In <span class=GramE>this early stages</span>, for example, different characters pronounce <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Duluoz</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>quite differently. For Creeley it is <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>D&#601;-looz</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>,</i> for <span class=SpellE>Carrol</span> it is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Do-<span class=SpellE>loo-&#462;z</span></i>, with the short <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>a </i>pronounced as in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>cats. </i>But over the course of the recording most everyone comes to settle on <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>D&#601;-loo-ahz</i></span> with the stress on the second syllable. This is the sort of detail that a professional would have gotten down before committing a moment to tape, but professionalism was not Kerouac&#8217;s claim to writing &#8211; quite the opposite &#8211; and its absence here makes for texture, not problems. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">You can find one piece of Coolidge&#8217;s Kerouac collection online, <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/kerouac-per-coolidge.html"><span style="color: black;">this</span></a> relatively straightforward, even formal overview from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Poetry Review </i>gathered here amongst the rather breath-taking &amp; eclectic materials put together for Al Filreis&#8217; legendary <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/"><span style="color: black;">English 88</span></a> course at Penn. Of the essays (many of them simply excerpts from letters) in Coolidge&#8217;s collection, this is the closest thing to an normative piece of prose, which makes it, at once, perhaps the most accessible of the essays here, but in some ways the least of them as well. One great section of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Now It&#8217;s Jazz</i> consists of a recitation of dreams in which Kerouac has appeared to Coolidge, a riff on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book of Dreams </i>no doubt, but an intimate way to let you know not only how much Kerouac means to Coolidge&#8217;s own writing &amp; person, but also in what ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">One thing Coolidge does take from the early Kerouac is an enormous sense of dedication to craft and to the idea that the meaning of form is intimately connected to what you can do with it, not how neatly your shoe laces are tied. Coolidge has done his homework here, seeming to have read everything in print many times over &amp; more than a little of what is not yet in printed form. One consequence of this is that Coolidge is brutal with the haphazard nature of many of the Kerouac editions, more than a few of which seem designed to propagate the myth rather than elucidate the writer. Kerouac is one of several recent authors &#8211; Joyce &amp; Duncan come immediately to mind &#8211; where we may just have to wait for copyright to expire &amp; hope that enough of the materials not now in public archives get there <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>that each will ultimately find their own Hugh Kenner waiting to unpack the chronological &amp; other difficulties with which the total oeuvre is embedded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">One test of Coolidge as a critic &#8211; you can find some other non-Kerouac samples as well on his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EPC </i>web page &#8211; is that he gets the importance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Visions of Cody, </i>not just as a central work in the Kerouac canon, but quite possibly the Great Novel of the past century, right up on a par with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ulysses </i>&amp; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow </i>&amp; the best of Faulkner (who is not unlike Kerouac in that his best work often comes in passages, rather than entire books). Coolidge&#8217;s &#8220;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Visions of Cody </i>Notes,&#8221; modeled after Kerouac&#8217;s own pseudo-script telegraphed prose is this book&#8217;s secret gem as well as the one work entirely devoted to a single volume of Kerouac&#8217;s. </span><u><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The other echo that Coolidge&#8217;s book sets up for me is Kerouac&#8217;s ideas of spontaneous prose &amp; their relation (or lack thereof) to the folk physiology of Charles Olson&#8217;s poetics, which I&#8217;d been working on prior to my week in Naropa last month. Here is Olson, from &#8220;<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/jarnot/olson.html"><span style="color: black;">Projective Verse</span></a>&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But consider the role of the eye, alluded to repeatedly in Kerouac&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html"><span style="color: black;">Belief &amp; Technique for Modern Prose</span></a>&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4. Be in love with yr life <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7. Blow as deep as you want to blow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9. The unspeakable visions of the individual <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10. No time for poetry but exactly what is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">19. Accept loss forever <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">20. Believe in the holy contour of life <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language &amp; knowledge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">29. You're a Genius all the time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">If the tug-of-war in Olson&#8217;s  work, the forces that give it its internal energy, is that battle between syllable &amp; line, for Kerouac it&#8217;s between &#8220;the visual American form,&#8221; &#8220;pithy middle eye&#8221; &amp; the mind, by which Kerouac does not mean logic or reason. &#8220;Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t get much more explicit than that, yet Coolidge shows how precisely Kerouac gives head to words &amp; depiction simultaneously, citing the great cafeteria description from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Visions of Cody </i>(possibly the best description of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything </i>in the whole of literature)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and this much shorter passage from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Angel Midnight: <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Mill Valley trees, the pines with green mint look and there&#8217;s a tangled eucalyptus hulk stick fallen thru the late sunlight tangle of those needles, hanging from it like a live wire connecting it to the ground &#8211; just below, the notches where little Fred sought to fell sad pine &#8211; not bleed much &#8211; just a lot of crystal sap the ants are mining in, motionless like cows on the grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">There is a great riff of prosody in that first interior phrase &#8211; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">where little Fred sought to fell sad pine </i>&#8211; that makes you realize just how completely Kerouac is in control of (and driven by) the sound of the passage, tho it is not ultimately the sound that&#8217;s at play. This is a rare moment in American fiction &#8211; one wants to say American poetry tho Kerouac himself would not have agreed &#8211; and that Coolidge is capable of foregrounding a moment like this is a sign of his own considerable skill thinking through these materials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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