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    On A Road
    On A Road
    On A Road
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    On A Road

    By Jim Landwehr

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    On a Road takes the spirit and abandon of Kerouac westward on a journey into manhood for three Midwestern city boys who hit the road. A poetic travelogue detailing a journey of three young men heading west in search of all the allure and false promises California offers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnsolicited Press
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463344064
    On A Road
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    Jim Landwehr

    Jim Landwehr has two books, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir and Written Life, as well as multiple publications in journals, anthologies, and magazines. He lives with his wife and two children in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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      On A Road - Jim Landwehr

      On a Road

      A Poem Series

      by Jim Landwehr

      Copyright©2018 Jim Landwehr

      Published by Unsolicited Press

      Portland, Oregon

      www.unsolicitedpress.com

      Foreword

      In March of 1984, two friends and I rented a car and drove nonstop from St. Paul, Minnesota to Los Angeles California, a forty-hour drive, one way. We were all in our early twenties and it was the first big trip for all of us. We worked together on the catalog dock at Montgomery Wards at the time and were visiting a former coworker who had relocated to the west coast.

      The trip had elements of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel, On the Road, and being a big fan of the beat generation, I decided to make a three-poem series out of my recollection of our travels. I chose to build in some references from Kerouac’s work including changing my friends’ names to match the characters in On the Road.

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