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August 24th, 2011

The Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Jack Kerouac looked like Jesus. In the ink sketch my dad did of him, Kerouac’s arms are outstretched to either side, his head in proﬁle as though waiting for the lash. …more

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Tana Wojczuk is the online editor of MYOO.com and an essayist and critic whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Tin House, The Believer, Lapham's Quarterly, Bomb Magazine, The New York Times (letters), Paste, Opium, The Faster Times and elsewhere.

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