Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, which Kerouac started while sharing a cabin with poet Gary Snyder and was fully absorbed in his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac tried to emulate Snyder’s daily Buddhist meditation discipline, using the technique of “letting go” to free his mind for pure spontaneous writing, annotating the stream of words flowing through his consciousness in response to auditory stimuli and his own mental images.
His exercise in spontaneous composition includes a period where he was with William Burroughs in Tangiers. He made no revisions to the automatic writing entries in his notebooks, which were collected and transcribed for publication as originally written.
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Paperback, Published by City Lights Publishing/Grey Fox, 1973/2001/2016. 96 pages
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Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, which Kerouac started while sharing a cabin with poet Gary Snyder and was fully absorbed in his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac tried to emulate Snyder’s daily Buddhist meditation discipline, using the technique of “letting go” to free his mind for pure spontaneous writing, annotating the stream of words flowing through his consciousness in response to auditory stimuli and his own mental images.
His exercise in spontaneous composition includes a period where he was with William Burroughs in Tangiers. He made no revisions to the automatic writing entries in his notebooks, which were collected and transcribed for publication as originally written.
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