Abstract
Jack Kerouac (1922–69), whose first novel, On the Road (1957), captured a huge audience, played a central role in the literary movement he named the Beat Generation. His second novel, The Dharma Bums (1958), gave an intimate biographical account of himself in search of the truth in life. In San Francisco he met Gary Snyder (1930—) and the two Dharma bums explored the thoughts and practices of Buddhism. As Snyder left for Japan to study at a Zen monastery, Kerouac reached an apogee on a desolate mountaintop in the Sierras.
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© 2009 Yoshinobu Hakutani
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Hakutani, Y. (2009). Jack Kerouac’s Haiku and Beat Poetics. In: Haiku and Modernist Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100916_7
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