He keeps coming back …

… A new look at Jack Kerouac, from the Library of America - The Washington Post. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Someone once said that a a slender volume of great poetry can be culled from Wordsworth. The same is true of Kerouac. He is hit-and-miss, not only from one book to another, but also, often, within a given book. But when he hits it, he hits it solid, as the quotes cited in tis piece demonstrate. “Smoke sorrows from red dusk roofs in winter New England” — that's really very good, especially using "sorrows" as a verb.