Regina Weinreich
Contributor
Website : Regina Weinreich at SVA
Professor in Humanities and Sciences, School of Visual Arts, New York City. Author of Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics and compiler of Kerouac's Book of Haikus; director of Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider; contributor to the Huffington Post.
Primary Contributions (1)
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road (1957), had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. On the Road captured the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had since F. Scott…
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Publications (2)
Book of Haikus (April 2003)
A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy
“Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic...
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“Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic...
Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics A Study of the Fiction (2001)
While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. This is the first book to explore his place in American literature by establishing the total design of his work. Regina Weinreich contends that Kerouac wrote with this “grand design” in mind: that he thought of his works as “one vast book” a “Divine Comedy of Buddha” that he called The Legend of Duluoz. The nature of Kerouac’s “spontaneous bop prosody” is discussed in relation to the work...
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