TISH Newsletter from Jack Kerouac's Collection, Addressed in His Hand

An issue of the poetry newsletter "TISH" taken from the Jack Kerouac collection, addressed in the author's hand. 14pp, measuring 8.5" x 14", Vancouver, Canada, dated October 14, 1962. Edited by Frank Davey. Addressed on the front in Kerouac's hand in blue ink. With an article about Kerouac and "Big Sur" on page 5. Stamped on the final page with both a Jack Kerouac Estate stamp and the raised blind seal from the Executor of the Estate, John Sampas, who was the brother-in-law of Jack Kerouac and the brother of Stella Kerouac, Jack's wife. With flattened folds and light toning throughout. Faint to light soiling throughout, more so on the front. Boldly signed within the address by Kerouac.

The article on Kerouac reads in part:
"The more I think about Kerouac the more I am convinced that he is cutting thru the Mailers and the Baldwins and the Bourjailys, he is the novelist most likely to be remembered and studied as the leader of his era. I mean he will follow Melville, Twain, James, Faulkner, Hemingway at the very top and center of the American novel history. Literary greatness demands two things that Kerouac is giving: a hefty body of published work and a personal ability to play a personal prose chord & illuminate the writer's time in the world…Kerouac's view is that of the irrational man, the Oriental antipode of European rationalism. "Saturday Review" poet-critics make fun of novelists that study Buddhism because the tight collar atmosphere of "Saturday Review" produces a desire to keep America safe for rationalism, a place where tourist-mothers can drive along the red lines on the roadmaps…Big Sur ranks just behind "The Railroad Earth" among the best of Kerouac's writing to date…Kerouac has landed at a fulcrum now, a place from which he can step over to a series of books dealing with the man who has got the young cross country drive out of himself. We wait anxiously for the next one…"

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