![]() ![]() At roughly the same time and place and in response to the same stimuli – a world at once accelerating and constricting – the painter Jackson Pollock and the musician Charlie Parker had accomplished similar revolutions in their own art forms. Kerouac had reached a state in which his writing was very nearly a biological act, an experience of sensorium functioning, a meditation that operated through both the conscious and subconscious levels but was controlled by neither as friend Michael McClure later wrote, he was An excerpt fromĭesolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America ![]() ![]() Here’s a chunk from where I compare the lives and work of Jack, Jackson Pollock the great abstract-expressionist painter, and the giant of bop saxophone, Charley Parker. ![]() I’m brassy enough to say I think it stands up. Seven years later and some wonderful research later, I (with a little help from Random House) published Desolate Angel. So in 1972, still feeling part of the ‘60s, I looked back to the ‘50s and saw the most interesting part of it – Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. If you have no idea of your roots, your past, it’s hard to see where you’re going. Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America, hardcover, paperback and e-book Available from Amazon ![]()
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