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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5403
EAN: 9780802134752
ISBN: 0802134750
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 210
Publication Date: August 13, 1996
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
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The leading poet of the Beat generation and late twentieth-century American letters, a spokesman for the anti-war generation, an icon of the counterculture, Allen Ginsberg led a movement that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg's writing from a 1962-63 stay in India, offering a wonderfully eclectic, visionary, and, at times, intensely private account of his time there. Photos.
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Beautiful and paranoiac in the same time this epic journey of Allen Ginsberg w/ Peter Orlowsky in India shows written bits as diary writing, journals, magnificent poems along the way with wonderful photographs inserted. This books is a collage of ideas, sentiments, emotions captured by Allen's ink along his trip throught Calcutta, beautiful instants, praise for the police state, words that fall on the text, announced with a cold voice. This book begin as a diary and classic Allen Ginsberg poems comes ... Read More
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This collection of diary entries, pieces of poems, personal reflections, and other notations written by Allen Ginsberg (poet + prophet) reveals a lot not only about Ginsberg, but about India itself. The conditions on the streets of Calcutta, Bombay, and other Indian cities are presented in stark clarity; many of the images he invokes are startling (like the burning ghats, or burial mounds), and sometimes even disturbing, but they are always described in a way that is at once personal and human. ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5403
EAN: 9780802134752
ISBN: 0802134750
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 210
Publication Date: August 13, 1996
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press