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MEXICO CITY BLUES (211TH CHORUS) by JOHN KEROUAC

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WHEEL OF THE QUIVERING MEAT
Last Line: OF THAT SLAVING MEAT WHEEL %AND SAFE IN HEAVEN DEAD

Poem Sources:

THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, 1945-1960.
  ALLEN, DONALD M. (ED.)
  (1999)
 
POSTMODERNS; THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY REVISED.
  ALLEN, DONALD, & BUTTERICK, GEORGE F. (EDS.)
  (1982)
 
POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY.
  HOOVER, PAUL (ED.)
  (1994)
 
THE BEAT BOOK.
  WALDMAN, ANNE (ED.)
  (1996)
 
POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM. VOLUME 2. FROM POSTWAR TO MILLENNIUM.
  ROTHENBERG, JEROME, AND JORIS, PIERRE (EDS.)
  (1998)
 
MEXICO CITY BLUES (242 CHORUSES).
  KEROUAC, JACK
  (1990)
 



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