The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504033992

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The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Poetic meditations on joy, consciousness, and becoming one with the infinite universe from the author of On the Road During an unexplained fainting spell, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac experienced a flash of enlightenment. A student of Buddhist philosophy, Kerouac recognized the experience as “satori,” a moment of life-changing epiphany. The knowledge he gained in that instant is expressed in this volume of sixty-six prose poems with language that is both precise and cryptic, mystical and plain. His vision proclaims, “There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one golden eternity.” Within these meditations, haikus, and Zen koans is a contemplation of consciousness and impermanence. While heavily influenced by the form of Buddhist poems or sutras, Kerouac also draws inspiration from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoism, Native American spirituality, and the Catholicism of his youth. Far-reaching and inclusive, this collection reveals the breadth of Kerouac’s poetic sensibility and the curiosity, word play, and fierce desire to understand the nature of existence that make up the foundational concepts of Beat poetry and propel all of Kerouac’s writing.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:186329997

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The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1407699378

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“The” Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:55054141

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The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872863808

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Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac Pdf

"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about." Excerpt: WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded evening street of brown lights, coke stands, tortillas-Unmistakably going to steal my bag-I struggled a little, gave up-Begin communicating with them my distress and in fact do so well they end up just stealing parts of my stuff…. We walk off leaving the bag with someone-arm in arm like a gang to the downtown lights of Letran, across a field- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Roa, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Scattered Poems, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes, and Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0872862690

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Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac Pdf

A collection of poems by beat generation author Jack Kerouac, written between 1954 and 1965 about Mexico, Tangier, Berkeley, the Bowery, God, drugs, and other topics.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140194746

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Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Author : Erik Mortenson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809386130

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Capturing the Beat Moment by Erik Mortenson Pdf

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Examining “the moment” as one of the primary motifs of Beat writing, Erik Mortenson offers the first book to investigate immediacy and its presence and importance in Beat writing. Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and provides an account of Beat practices that reveal how gender and race affect Beat politics of the moment. Mortenson argues that Beat writers focused on action, desire, and spontaneity to establish an authentic connection to the world around them and believed that “living in the moment” was the only way in which they might establish the kind of life that led to good writing. With this in mind, he explores the possibility that, far from being the antithesis of their times, the Beats actually were a product of them. Mortenson outlines the effects of gender and race on Beat writing in the postwar years, as well as the Beats’ attempts to break free of the constrictive notions of time and space prevalent during the 1950s. Mortenson discusses such topics as the importance of personal visionary experiences; the embodiment of sexuality and the moment of ecstasy in Beat writing; how the Beats used photographs to evoke the past; and the ways that Beat culture was designed to offer alternatives to existing political and social structures. Throughout the volume, Mortenson moves beyond the Kerouac-Ginsberg-Burroughs triumvirate commonly associated with Beat literature, discussing women—such as Diane di Prima, Janine Pommy Vega, and Joyce Johnson—and African American writers, including Bob Kaufman and Amiri Baraka. With the inclusion of these authors comes a richer understanding of the Beat writers’ value and influence in American literary history. !--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--

Author : Gary Gach
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780938077923

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What Book!? by Gary Gach Pdf

With poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a boad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way. " A poet once located poetry as somewhere before or after words take place. Mindfulness is the practice of finding that realm, dwelling there, and cultivating the ability to live completely in the present, deeply aware and appreciative of life." - from the author's Preface. "This enigmatically titled anthology offers numerous delights and valuable evidence that great poetic variety, from haiku and witty two liners to page-long discourses, has by now given distinct expression to Western Buddhism." - Publisher’s Weekly.

Author : John Whalen-Bridge,Gary Storhoff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438426594

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The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature by John Whalen-Bridge,Gary Storhoff Pdf

The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement's resounding critique of the United States as a spiritually dead society, Beat writers and others have shaped how Buddhism has been presented to and perceived by a North American audience. Contributors to this volume explore how Asian influences have been adapted to American desires in literary works and Buddhist poetics, or how Buddhist practices emerge in literary works. Starting with early aesthetic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, made famous but also distorted by Ezra Pound, the book moves on to the countercultural voices associated with the Beat movement and its friends and heirs such as Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Giorno, Waldman, and Whalen. The volume also considers the work of contemporary American writers of color influenced by Buddhism, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Charles Johnson, and Lan Cao. An interview with Kingston is included.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504033978

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Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac Pdf

A sensory narrative poem capturing the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity from the author of On the Road A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Jack Kerouac’s most boldly experimental works. Collected from five notebooks dating from 1956 to 1959—a time in which Kerouac was immersed in Buddhist theory—Old Angel Midnight is comprised of sixty-seven short sections unified by an unwavering dedication to sounds, the subconscious, and verbal ingenuity. Friday Afternoon in the Universe, in all directions in & out you got your men women dogs children horses pones tics perts parts pans pools palls pails parturiences and petty Thieveries that turn into heavenly Buddha. Thus begins Kerouac’s Joycean language dance. From birdsong to dharmic verse, street jargon to French slang, the resonances of the universe come blaring in though the windows, unfurling their meaning as the mind lets go and listens.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0912516313

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Heaven & Other Poems by Jack Kerouac Pdf

A selection of Jack Kerouac's poems, plus his statements on poetics and letters to an editor.

Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815511

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God and Time by Gregory E. Ganssle Pdf

Editor Gregory Ganssle calls on four Christian philosophers to present and defend their views on the place of God in a time-bound universe. The positions taken up here include divine timeless eternity, eternity as relative timelessness, timelessness and omnitemporality, and unqualified divine temporality.

Author : James T. Jones
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809322633

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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend by James T. Jones Pdf

Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307386205

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The Damascus Road by Jay Parini Pdf

From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever. In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Damascus, he had some sort of blinding vision, a profound conversion experience that transformed Paul into the most effective and influential messenger Christianity has ever had. In The Damascus Road novelist Jay Parini brings this fascinating and ever-controversial figure to full human life, capturing his visionary passions and vast contradictions. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, he unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change. And in the alternating voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel companion, scribe, and ghostwriter, a cooler perspective on his actions and beliefs emerges -- ironic but still filled with wonder at Paul's unshakable commitment to the Christ and his divinity.