Compact disc.

Biographical information and program notes in container insert.

Previously released in the 1950s.

Unabridged.

Includes bonus interviews.

Disc one. Poetry for the beat generation: October in the railroad earth ; Deadbelly ; Charlie Parker ; The sounds of the universe coming in my window ; One mother ; Goofing at the table ; Bowery blues ; Abraham ; Dave Drubeck ; I had a slouch hat too one time ; The wheel of the quivering meat conception ; MacDougal Street blues ; The moon her majesty ; I'd rather be thin than famous -- Blues and Haius: American haikus ; Hard hearted old farmer ; The last hotel & some of dharma ; Poems from the unpublished "Book of blues."

Disc two. Readings by Jack Kerouac on the beat generation: The beat generation ; Poems (fragments) ; Lucien Midnight, the sounds of the universe in my window pt. I ; Lucien Midnight, the sounds of the universe in my window pt. II ; Fantasy, the early history of bop ; Excerpts from "The subterraneans" ; Visions of Neal, Neal and the Three Stooges pt. I ; Visions of Neal, Neal and the Three Stooges pt. II -- Bonus tracks: Readings from "On the road" and "Visions of Cody" ; Interview with Ben Hecht (1958) ; Interview with William F. Buckley Jr. (also featuring William Burroughs) (1968) ; Interview with Fernando Pivano (1966).

Jack Kerouac ; with acc.

Collects three spoken word albums from Jack Kerouac, including his "Poetry for the Beat Generation," "Blues and Haikus," and "Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation;" along with select readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody," and interviews.