The American Poetry Review, January 1st, 1995
Jack Kerouac's writing is vocal in that the reader senses a voice rather than having a visual interaction with the words. Kerouac was strongly influenced by Bop which reflected his own rapid writing style with extremes of tempo that produced an emphasis similar to that in Bop. His writing style involves a cycle of recording direct experiences, changing the memories into words and then writing his BabbleFlow which emptied his mind of the experiences and opened it to new ones.
I thought I'd start out with a sort of two-panel quote from Kerouac to give the range of his language. You might think ...
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