The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac
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Pub Date Mar 22 2016 | Archive Date Jun 22 2016
Description
Poetic meditations on joy, consciousness, and becoming one with the infinite universe from the author of On the Road
During an unexplained fainting spell, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac experienced a flash of enlightenment. A student of Buddhist philosophy, Kerouac recognized the experience as “satori,” a moment of life-changing epiphany. The knowledge he gained in that instant is expressed in this volume of sixty-six prose poems with language that is both precise and cryptic, mystical and plain. His vision proclaims, “There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one golden eternity.”
Within these meditations, haikus, and Zen koans is a contemplation of consciousness and impermanence. While heavily influenced by the form of Buddhist poems or sutras, Kerouac also draws inspiration from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoism, Native American spirituality, and the Catholicism of his youth. Far-reaching and inclusive, this collection reveals the breadth of Kerouac’s poetic sensibility and the curiosity, word play, and fierce desire to understand the nature of existence that make up the foundational concepts of Beat poetry and propel all of Kerouac’s writing.
During an unexplained fainting spell, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac experienced a flash of enlightenment. A student of Buddhist philosophy, Kerouac recognized the experience as “satori,” a moment of life-changing epiphany. The knowledge he gained in that instant is expressed in this volume of sixty-six prose poems with language that is both precise and cryptic, mystical and plain. His vision proclaims, “There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one golden eternity.”
Within these meditations, haikus, and Zen koans is a contemplation of consciousness and impermanence. While heavily influenced by the form of Buddhist poems or sutras, Kerouac also draws inspiration from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoism, Native American spirituality, and the Catholicism of his youth. Far-reaching and inclusive, this collection reveals the breadth of Kerouac’s poetic sensibility and the curiosity, word play, and fierce desire to understand the nature of existence that make up the foundational concepts of Beat poetry and propel all of Kerouac’s writing.
Advance Praise
“Kerouac’s Scripture is accurately onto the profound dharma teaching of form is emptiness, emptiness is form, emptiness is no other than form, form is no other than emptiness.” —Anne Waldman
“The Scripture is an extraordinarily controlled use of a language and a process of discourse.” —Eric Mottram
Praise for Jack Kerouac
“Kerouac was a breath of fresh air when he came on the literary scene. He was also a force, a tragedy, a triumph, and an ongoing influence, and that influence is still with us.” —Norman Mailer on Desolation Angels
“Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the humorous emptiness of its elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.” —Allen Ginsberg on Big Sur
“Kerouac is extreme, but he is genuine, he is alive, and he is native.” —Library Journal on The Dharma Bums
“Life is great, and few can put the zest and candor and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac.” —San Francisco Examiner on On the Road
“The Scripture is an extraordinarily controlled use of a language and a process of discourse.” —Eric Mottram
Praise for Jack Kerouac
“Kerouac was a breath of fresh air when he came on the literary scene. He was also a force, a tragedy, a triumph, and an ongoing influence, and that influence is still with us.” —Norman Mailer on Desolation Angels
“Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the humorous emptiness of its elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.” —Allen Ginsberg on Big Sur
“Kerouac is extreme, but he is genuine, he is alive, and he is native.” —Library Journal on The Dharma Bums
“Life is great, and few can put the zest and candor and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac.” —San Francisco Examiner on On the Road
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781504033992 |
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