Indian Journals Author:Allen Ginsberg Indian Journals are notebook writings sketches dream fragments night thought afternoon reveries Kodak snapshots Optical & verbal: hymns to Kali, political ravings, one line pensees, doodles, description in detail of opium Dens in Calcutta & Bombay; fragments of conversation with Beggars, poets, Babas, newsmen, lovers; paragraphs o... more »f letters, ganja-grass high notations on moving trains and in burning grounds, tourist awes & addresses, glimpses of bridges and streets; but mostly the tortured introspection of self wandering in XX Century throught northern India, living half a year at a time in Benares and Calcutta, dreaming about holymen and visiting some few, watching beggars, feeding lepers with Orlovsky poet-nurse, bathing in Ganges, shopping in ancient markets and cooking hideous cannibal chickens in holytown,learning mantras & Hindu gods' names for chanting; books of thought kept at fancy leisure, crude poems, home-made photos of cows and sadhus. These journals include the bulk of writing (except for letters) done by the author during 1962-3 stay in India & are that portion of otherwise unpublished journals begun 1945 continuing to present 70's decade. Most writings published as "Poems" by the author have been drawn from garrulous solitary pages this scribed the last several decades. Not originated for public eye, it's taken half decade to transcribe, edit & publish these journals with matching photos & drawings reproduced as per lonely handwork of self keeping record of self's consciousness, the old yoga of Poesy.« less