Joanne Kyger: The Japan and India Journals, 1960–1964

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Nightboat, paperback

Publication Date: January 05, 2016

Publisher Marketing: First published in 1981, The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 is Joanne Kyger’s journal of her four tumultuous years in Japan and India as a young poets in her late twenties. This book chronicles her developing poetic sensibility, emergent Buddhist practice, and what it meant to be a woman trying to write in pre-feminist Beat days. Attentive, witty, and always entertaining, this is poet’s prose at its best.

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