If Only Analogues...
Ange Mlinko: Ginsberg Goes to India, 20 November 2008
A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
by Deborah Baker.
Penguin US, 256 pp., £25.95, April 2008,978 1 59420 158 5 Show More
by Deborah Baker.
Penguin US, 256 pp., £25.95, April 2008,
“... laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. Like many American poets, including Ginsberg but also Eliot and Stevens, Ashbery and O’Hara, they were galvanised by modern French poetry. Like the Surrealists, they issued their own magazine (called Krittibas) and manifestos under the collective name ‘the Hungry Generation’ (later the ‘Hungryalists’). But, like ... ”