• Mexico City Blues is a long poem by Jack Kerouac, composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959. Written between 1954 and 1957...
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    Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México, locally [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈmexiko] ; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl: Mexihco Hueyaltepetl, Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔko...
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    November 21, 2013. Kerouac, Jack (1959). Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses). Grove Press. p. 113. "Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac". Poemhunter.com. May 4,...
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    Charlie Parker (redirect from Cool blues)
    In 1959, Jack Kerouac completed his only full-length poetry work, Mexico City Blues, with two poems about Parker's importance, writing in those works...
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    Parrot Fever in 2000. On June 5, 1996, Kerouac died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a day after her spleen was removed. She had suffered kidney failure five...
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  • (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971) Pull My Daisy (late 1940s) Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956;...
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    read on October 7, 1955, before 100 people (including Kerouac, up from Mexico City). Lamantia read poems of his late friend John Hoffman. At his first public...
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    Adolfo de la Parra (category Mexican rock musicians)
    work as the drummer of the American blues rock band Canned Heat, which he joined in 1967. Parra was born in Mexico City, and as played in bands such as Los...
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  • and friend Joan Vollmer shared an apartment on 118th Street in New York City which came to be frequented by many of the then unknown Beats, among them...
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    Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010...
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