Elegies: For Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso

by Barry Gifford

Elegies is a set of two individual poetry broadsides by Barry Gifford written as elegies to Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Gregory 1. "On Viewing the Manuscript Scroll of Jack Kerouac's On The Road in the Tosca Bar, San Francisco" - 2. "Small Elegy For Corso". The two broadsides are printed on card stock and measure approx 5" x 11". They are housed in a three panel folder with a diecut cover that is signed by Barry Gifford. Enclosed in a slipcase style envelope with linoleum block design. One of 200 copies printed by Jim Camp at Synaesthesia Press. All the design and text are both digitally set and printed by hand by letterpress on an old Vandercook press.

6 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.

He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..."He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.