Old Angel Midnight
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poem Beat |
| Publisher | Grey Fox Press |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 89 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-91-251697-6 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) |
| Followed by | Good Blonde & Others (1993) |
Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by American writer Jack Kerouac that was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956-1959 while Kerouac was fully ensconced in Buddhist studies and theory. Kerouac himself said of the poem, "Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddalada-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm doing, in Mexico, Morocco, New York, India or Pakistan, in Spanish, French, Aztec, Gaelic, Keltic, Kurd or Dravidian, the sounds of people yakking and of myself yakking among, ending finally in great intuitions of the sounds of tongues throughout the entire universe in all directions in and out forever. And it is the only book I've ever written in which I allow myself the right to say anything I want, absolutely and positively anything, since that's what you hear coming in that window... God in his Infinity wouldn't have had a world otherwise — Amen."
References
- 1993. Old Angel Midnight, ISBN 0-91-251697-6
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