The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964

By Joanne Kyger

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658430
• ISBN13: 9781937658434
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"