THE DAILY BEAT: Patti Smith performs a piece a la Jack Kerouac

Monday, January 18, 2016

Patti Smith performs a piece a la Jack Kerouac

Until today we haven't said much - if anything - about Patti Smith here on The Daily Beat, but regular readers are probably familiar with this amazing multi-platform artist. Click here for some info from Beatdom on Smith. My friend Richard Marsh recently bought me her book, M Train, and I've been enjoying that for the last number of days. I recommend it.

Click here for a piece where Smith adapts a Kerouac poem, "The Last Hotel," to voice and guitar. If you want to read along from the source poem, it's on page 80 of Kerouac's Pomes All Sizes (1992, City Lights Books).

While you're at Brainpickings, check out another post about Kerouac here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Good stuff Rick. The Patti Smith piece appears on this great collection, along with a whole bunch of other good stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/Kerouac-Kicks-Joy-Darkness/dp/B0000009PX

Richard Marsh; January 18, 2016 at 4:02 PM

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Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

Jared Randall, author of the excellent book of poetry, Apocryphal Road Code, said this about The Beat Handbook: "Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time. In my wandering pack of experiences, I find they often do. Enter The Beat Handbook by Rick Dale."

Kenneth Morris, Kerouacian extraordinaire, said this:
"I just finished reading Rick Dale's beautiful utterance and call to action of Kerouac mind-set and zen sensibilities. It made me laugh and reflect on my own life and road I have naturally grooved into after absorbing the Kerouac canon. The road less traveled always had my name on it. And that has made all the difference. The Beat Handbook 100 Days of Kerouactions reaffirms the attitudes and ideology that made the Beats and Kerouac the important men of ideas that America (and the world) thirsted for, needed, and swallowed whole. Beautiful, absorbing, Top Ten whipsmart from my articulate, tender-hearted friend and fellow traveler. Highly recommended."