On a rainy night in San Francisco, just before Thanksgiving in 1959, Jack Keroauc, Lew Welch, and Albert Saijo piled into Welchs car and set off on a crosscountry trip, headed for New York City and then on to Keroaucs mothers home on Long Island.Trip Trap is a record of that journey, notes from the road by three of the central figures of the Beat Movement as they shared booze and coffee and peanut butter sandwiches, talking and singing and versifying while the country slipped by out the window. Here are the haiku that Keroauc, Saijo, and Welch jotted down in notebooks, along with a recollection of the trip written by Saijo in 1973, a section from Welchs unfinished novel that describes the trip and the return, and Welchs early 1960 letters to Keroauc that continue the bond forged during those days on the road together.Jack Kerouac (19221969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes (City Lights), Scattered Poems (City Lights), and Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).Lew Welch (19261971?) was an American poet and active participant in the Beat generation literary movement. From 1965 to 1970, he taught a poetry workshop. His works, which were published by City Lights/Grey Fox, include Trip Trap Haiku on the Road, Selected Poems, and Ring of Bone.Albert Saijo (19292011)...

Binding: Paperback;78 pages; Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Classification: DCF; Weight: 238 g; Dimensions: 156 x 216 x 6

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