Some American Haikus Click here to hear "Well here I am......"(22 K)
Click here to hear "After the shower......"(50 K)
Click here to hear "Bee, why are you staring......"(32 K)
Click here to hear "The bottoms of my shoes......"(41 K)
Click here to hear "Early morning yellow flowers......"(39 K)
Click here to hear "Empty baseball fields......"(39 K)
Click here to hear "Holding up my purring cat......"(38 K)
Click here to hear "In the morning frost......"(35 K)
Click here to hear "Nightfall......"(38 K)
Click here to hear "The tree looks like a dog......"(34 K)
Click here to hear "I love Allen Ginsberg..."(52 K)
This bite was put up shortly after Ginsberg died. Go to the Sound Source page to see a picture of the Three Caballeros.
Here are some sounds of Kerouac reading from the first section of October in the Railroad Earth. In Lonesome Traveller it's called simply The Railroad Earth. And in one of the sounds, Kerouac sings the line.Click here to hear "There was a little alley in San Francisco..."(80 K)
Click here to hear "They've gottta catch......"(70 K)
Click here to hear "and feel the warp of wood..."(32 K)
Click here to hear "puffs floating by..."(23 K)
Click here to hear "you ought to..."(34 K)
Click here to hear Kerouac sing"Mama, he treats your daughter mean"(30 K)
Click here to hear "I should have played..."(25 K)
Click here to hear "my heart broke..."(73 K)
Click here to hear "anyway, I wrote the the book..."(21 K)
Click here to hear "I wish I was free..."(32 K)
Click here to hear "taxicrab..."(17 K)
Click here to hear "anybody got a..."(10 K)
Click here to hear "trying to think of a rule..."(60 K)
Click here to hear "under the empty blue..."(30 K)
Click here to hear "the moon is..."(10 K)
The first sound in this section has Kerouac Singing.Click here to hear Jack Kerouac sing "The grim fighting hero..."(72 K)
Click here to hear "meaningless goof, though somewhat mysterious..."(113 K)
Click here to hear "The street is loaded with darkness..."(21 K)
Click here to hear "I look up at blue sky..."(24 K)
Click here to hear "San Francisco..."(9 K)
Click here to hear "It's all in California..."(12 K)
Click here to hear "Everything is pouring in..."(12 K)
Click here to hear "One mad brunette..."(18 K)
Click here to hear "It's the beat generation..."(18 K)
Click here to hear "We have to go..."(21 K)
Click here to hear "But now all they do..."(27 K)
Click here to hear "In the air..."(30 K)
Click here to hear "I have insane..."(57 K)
Click here to hear "I am only an apache..."(69 K)
Click here to hear "It was the fantastic..."(96 K)
A note on the sources for these sounds.
Literary Kicks Levi Asher's web site dedicated to Kerouac, Ginsberg and others. If you came here from there, click below to go back there. If you made it here via another path, go there and have a look.
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James Joyce If you liked this page with Kerouac reading his works, here's a page you'll probably also like. It is snippets of Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle.
James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake.
Want to read some stories I wrote? Here they are Shortstack Lightning, Champion Pancake Eater.
The Fighters
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Want to learn about a great writer you probably never heard of? C'mon, take a look.
Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature
Zora Neale Hurston A little bit of this great American writer.
My e-mail address I put this page up more than a year ago now. A fair amount of people come by. I always like getting feedback so if you were here drop me an e-mail saying hi, or commenting or whatever.
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April 6, 1998