Thursday, February 27, 2014

Allen Ginsberg's "Indian Journals"...part 1

Since I'm only halfway through the book...it looks like this one is going to be a two-week project. I initially read "Indian Journals" during a summer break from college, while floating in the pool. I was going through my "Beat" period, obsessively reading everything I could get my hands on by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg and their compatriots. I was writing more then too, which is why I picked it up. I'm hoping to give myself a jump start to get writing again. The journals begin in November 1961 with Ginsberg's arrival in India. It's a mishmash of journal entries, dreams (some drug-induced, some not), and poems with a handful of pictures mixed in. Best line so far: "It isn't enough for yr heart to break because everbody's heart is broken now." More next week, after I've had a chance to finish the book...

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