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Title: Scattered Life, Scattered Poems
Review: Kerouac wrote some pretty bad poems, but he also wrote some darn good ones. Any collection of his poetry will contain the good and bad. Every poet has good stuff and bad stuff, and you have to write the bad stuff to get to the good stuff. Kerouac was a highly original poet, influenced by jazz improvisation. He plays with words and rhyme in ways no poet does. Scattered Poems is indeed a scattered collection with some original poems and poems from his collections that weren't published at the time but are now available in print. My favorite in the book is a biographical poem on the great French poet Rimbaud. He hits, in a poetic way, the high points of his life, and then draws an interesting comment on life. If your not a trained reader of poetry, some of his work will go by you, but with Kerouac there's always an effort to reach all readers in some of his work. He was not a literary man.
