Editing Jack Kerouac (section)

==Works==
{{Main|Jack Kerouac bibliography}}

===Poetry===
While he is best known for his novels, Kerouac also wrote poetry. Kerouac said that he wanted "to be considered as a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jazz session on Sunday.".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1016 |title=Jack Kerouac- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More |publisher=Poets.org |access-date=November 21, 2013 |archive-date=October 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009093002/http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of Kerouac's poems follow the style of his free-flowing, uninhibited prose, also incorporating elements of jazz and Buddhism. "Mexico City Blues," a collection of poems published in 1959, is made up of 242 choruses following the rhythms of jazz. In much of his poetry, to achieve a jazz-like rhythm, Kerouac made use of the long dash in place of a period. Several examples of this can be seen in "Mexico City Blues":

{{poemquote|
Everything
Is Ignorant of its own emptiness—
Anger
Doesnt like to be reminded of fits—|fragment from 113th Chorus<ref>{{cite book |last=Kerouac |first=Jack |date=1959 |title=Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses) |publisher=Grove Press |page=113 }}</ref>}}

Other poems by Kerouac, such as "Bowery Blues," incorporate jazz rhythms with Buddhist themes of [[Saṃsāra]], the cycle of life and death, and [[Samadhi]], the concentration of composing the mind.<ref name="poemhunter.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bowery-blues-2/ |title=Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac |publisher=Poemhunter.com |date=May 4, 2012 |access-date=November 21, 2013 |archive-date=November 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124184856/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bowery-blues-2 |url-status=live }}</ref> Also, following the jazz / blues tradition, Kerouac's poetry features repetition and themes of the troubles and sense of loss experienced in life.

===Posthumous editions===
In 2007, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of ''On the Road''{{'s}} publishing, Viking issued two new editions: ''On the Road: The Original Scroll'' and ''On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/uncensored-road-be-published-wbna14045410|title=Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published|publisher=[[Today.com]]|date=July 26, 2006|access-date=April 29, 2008|archive-date=March 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321010952/http://www.today.com/popculture/uncensored-road-be-published-wbna14045410|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Bignell, Paul|author2=Johnson, Andrew|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/on-the-road-uncensored-discovered-kerouac-cuts-459446.html|title=On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac 'cuts'|work=[[The Independent]]|date=July 29, 2007|access-date=April 29, 2008|location=London|archive-date=April 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422183556/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/on-the-road-uncensored-discovered-kerouac-cuts-459446.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> By far the more significant is ''Scroll'', a transcription of the original draft typed as one long paragraph on sheets of tracing paper which Kerouac taped together to form a {{convert|120|ft|m|adj=on}} scroll. The text is more sexually explicit than Viking allowed to be published in 1957, and also uses the real names of Kerouac's friends rather than the fictional names he later substituted. [[Indianapolis Colts]] owner [[Jim Irsay]] paid $2.43&nbsp;million for the original scroll and allowed an exhibition tour that concluded at the end of 2009. The other new issue, ''50th Anniversary Edition'', is a reissue of the 40th anniversary issue under an updated title.

The Kerouac/Burroughs manuscript ''[[And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]]'' was published for the first time on November 1, 2008, by [[Grove Press]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/03/02/new_kerouac-burroughs_book_due_out/2264/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20081207051614/http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/03/02/new_kerouac-burroughs_book_due_out/2264/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 7, 2008|title=New Kerouac-Burroughs book due out|work=[[United Press International]]|date=March 2, 2008|access-date=April 29, 2008}}</ref> Previously, a fragment of the manuscript had been published in the Burroughs compendium, ''Word Virus''.<ref name="virus">{{cite book | last =Burroughs | first =William | author-link =William S. Burroughs | title =Word virus | publisher =Grove Press | year =1998 | page =[https://archive.org/details/wordviruswilliam00burr/page/576 576] | isbn =0-8021-1629-9 | url =https://archive.org/details/wordviruswilliam00burr/page/576 }}</ref>

Les Éditions du Boréal, a Montreal-based publishing house, obtained rights from Kerouac's estate to publish a collection of works titled ''La vie est d'hommage'' (it was released in April 2016). It includes 16 previously unpublished works, in French, including a novella, ''Sur le chemin'', ''La nuit est ma femme'', and large sections of ''Maggie Cassidy'' originally written in French. Both ''Sur le chemin'' and ''La nuit est ma femme'' have also been translated to English by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, in collaboration with Kerouac, and were published in 2016 by the Library of America in ''The Unknown Kerouac''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/jack-kerouac-s-rare-french-novels-to-be-released-by-canadian-publishers-1.2953512 | title=Jack Kerouac's rare French novels to be released by Canadian publishers | date=February 11, 2015 | publisher=CBC/Radio-Canada | access-date=February 15, 2015 | archive-date=February 14, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214011136/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/jack-kerouac-s-rare-french-novels-to-be-released-by-canadian-publishers-1.2953512 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/unpublished-jack-kerouac-writings-to-be-released-1.2230909 | title=Unpublished Jack Kerouac writings to be released | work=Relaxnews | date=February 11, 2015 | agency=CTV News | access-date=February 15, 2015 | archive-date=February 15, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215190719/http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/unpublished-jack-kerouac-writings-to-be-released-1.2230909 | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Literary executorship and representation ===
Kerouac's literary executor, after the death of his direct family members, was John Sampas, who had been married to Kerouac's sister. When he died, in 2017, his son took over.<ref>{{Cite web |last=showbiz411 |date=2017-04-04 |title=Jack Kerouac's Estate Takes A New Turn as Longtime Custodian John Sampas Dies at 84 |url=https://www.showbiz411.com/2017/04/04/jack-kerouacs-estate-takes-a-new-turn-as-longtime-custodian-john-sampas-dies-at-84 |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Showbiz411 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912181204/https://www.showbiz411.com/2017/04/04/jack-kerouacs-estate-takes-a-new-turn-as-longtime-custodian-john-sampas-dies-at-84 |url-status=live }}</ref>