tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post5682794408379660850..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Jason Baldinger writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-66342182576097028962020-02-02T10:20:36.550-08:002020-02-02T10:20:36.550-08:00Jack Kerouac called his style of writing "ske...Jack Kerouac called his style of writing "sketching" -- an “undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret idea-words.” When Harcourt Brace published his 1st novel "The Town and the City" in 1950, 5 years after he had begun working on it. The jacket design by Leo Manso, who described his paintings as "abstract impressionism," failed to impress Kerouac, whose 2nd novel "On the Road" was based on his experiences while writing the 1st. He started writing it in 1948, and the 1st draft of the eventual novel was written in 3 weeks in April 1951; "the scroll" was typed single-spaced on a 120-ft continuous roll of tracing paper which he had cut to size and taped together, and had no margins or paragraph breaks. When he submitted it to A A Wyn he included his idea for a jacket with a typed note: “I submit this as my idea of an appealing commercial cover expressive of the book. The cover for The Town and the City was as dull as the title and the photo backflap.” After major changes Viking Press finally published it in 1957, but without his cover suggestion. In 1957 he drew up a Beat manifesto of painting:<br /><br />1) ONLY USE BRUSH, no knife to mash and spread and obliterate brush strokes, no fingers to press in lines that aren’t real<br /><br />2) USE BRUSH SPONTANEOUSLY. i.e. Without drawing, without long pause or delay, without erasing ... pile it on<br /><br />3) FIGURE MEETS BACKGROUND OR VICE VERSA BY THE BRUSH;<br /><br />4) PAINT WHAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU. NO ‘FICTION’<br /><br />5) STOP WHEN YOU WANT TO ‘IMPROVE’<br /><br />– IT’S DONE<br />DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com