{"id":143,"date":"2008-06-13T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2008\/06\/13\/kerouac-a-smile\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:31:06","slug":"kerouac-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2008\/06\/13\/kerouac-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kerouac Pun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"kerouac-pun.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2008\/06\/kerouac-pun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2008\/06\/kerouac-pun.jpg\" alt=\"kerouac-pun.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"789\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This broadside, printed with Jack Kerouac&#8217;s poem &#8220;A Pun for Al Gelpi,&#8221; was printed on a handpress here at Harvard by The Lowell-Adams House Printers in 1966. The poem, addressed to Lowell House resident tutor Al Gelpi, refers to a shared joke between Kerouac and Gelpi, explained in this negative print of the poem&#8217;s typescript:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"kerouac2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2008\/06\/kerouac2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2008\/06\/kerouac2.jpg\" alt=\"kerouac2.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the scarcest known Kerouac items, this is copy 17 of 100 printed, and is signed by Kerouac at the bottom. The block print was designed by Nicole Hollander.<\/p>\n<p>The Lowell-Adams House Printers, a group of Harvard College students in the mid-1960s, printed poems by many writers, including Noel Coward, Adrienne Rich, and John Updike. A finding aid of their records, held at Houghton, may be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00765\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=011490168\" target=\"_blank\">*<span style=\"color: #00008b\">AB95.K4595.966p<\/span><\/a>. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Images may not be reproduced without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This broadside, printed with Jack Kerouac&#8217;s poem &#8220;A Pun for Al Gelpi,&#8221; was printed on a handpress here at Harvard by The Lowell-Adams House Printers in 1966. The poem, addressed to Lowell House resident tutor Al Gelpi, refers to a shared joke between Kerouac and Gelpi, explained in this negative print of the poem&#8217;s typescript: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64929],"tags":[2827,873],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houghton-library","tag-american-lit","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-2j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}