num_pages: 280
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Japan & India Journals, 1960-1964
titlecomplete: The Japan & India Journals, 1960-1964
genres: Japan, India
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Tombouctou