Some of the Dharma
by Kerouac, Jack
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0140287078
- ISBN 13
- 9780140287073
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Books, 1999. 420 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. He began writing it in 1953 as reading notes on Buddhism intended for his friend, poet Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast and all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, meditations, fragments of letters, ideas about writing, overheard conversations, sketches, blues, and more. The final manuscript, completed in 1956, was as visually complex as the writing: each page was unique, typed in patterns and interlocking shapes. The elaborate form which Kerouac so painstakingly gave the book on his manual typewriter is re-created in this typeset facsimile." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.
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Some of the Dharma is a strange volume in Kerouac's autobiographical canon. As Kerouac's study in Buddhism intensified, this book evolved into a vast work of nonfiction into which he incorporated poetry, prayers, journal entries, meditations, fragments of letters, ideas about writing, overheard conversations, sketches, and more.
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- Title
- Some of the Dharma
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0140287078
- ISBN 13
- 9780140287073
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 4to
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