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Indian Journals - Allen Ginsberg

By Allen Ginsberg

Release Date: 2007-12-01

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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The collected writings from a 1962-63 stay in India from one of ā€œone of the most influential poets in Americaā€ (The New York Times Book Review)

The leading poet of the Beat generation and late-twentieth-century American letters, a spokesman for the antiwar generation, an icon of the counterculture, Allen Ginsberg led a movement that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Indian Journals collects Ginsbergā€™s writing from a 1962-63 stay in India. It is wonderfully far-reaching, imaginative, at times intensely private, and always in possession of a hallucinatory clarity that affirms Ginsbergā€™s truly great ability, as well as his ebullient spirit.

Indian Journals took half a decade to transcribe and edit; when it was originally published in 1970 it catalyzed a large movement of young Western pilgrims to explore India and Eastern thought. This perfect combination of text and images, Indian Journals is testimony to Ginsbergā€™s passionate interest in Eastern religion and mysticism and contains the initial ideas that compose some of his greatest poems. Published more than thirty years ago, Ginsbergā€™s intimate writings on India will be reissued in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Howlā€™s publication.

ā€œGinsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.ā€ā€”Bob Dylan

Indian Journals - Allen Ginsberg

By Allen Ginsberg

Release Date: 2007-12-01

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
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The collected writings from a 1962-63 stay in India from one of ā€œone of the most influential poets in Americaā€ (The New York Times Book Review)

The leading poet of the Beat generation and late-twentieth-century American letters, a spokesman for the antiwar generation, an icon of the counterculture, Allen Ginsberg led a movement that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Indian Journals collects Ginsbergā€™s writing from a 1962-63 stay in India. It is wonderfully far-reaching, imaginative, at times intensely private, and always in possession of a hallucinatory clarity that affirms Ginsbergā€™s truly great ability, as well as his ebullient spirit.

Indian Journals took half a decade to transcribe and edit; when it was originally published in 1970 it catalyzed a large movement of young Western pilgrims to explore India and Eastern thought. This perfect combination of text and images, Indian Journals is testimony to Ginsbergā€™s passionate interest in Eastern religion and mysticism and contains the initial ideas that compose some of his greatest poems. Published more than thirty years ago, Ginsbergā€™s intimate writings on India will be reissued in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Howlā€™s publication.

ā€œGinsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.ā€ā€”Bob Dylan

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