The Bluest Hand: Reviews
| September 17th, 2008
Gargi Gupta over at Business Standard reviews Deborah Baker’s literary biography, A Blue Hand, a book that chronicles the Beats (major and minor both) in India:
A Blue Hand is an account of the 15 months that Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky (whom he introduced as “my darling wife”, scandalising his hosts) and (for a brief 12 weeks), fellow Beat poet Gary Snyder and his wife Joanne Kyger spent travelling through India, “from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium dens and the burning pyres of Benaras”, in “search for god, for love and for peace”. Their “pilgrimage” culminated in Calcutta where they discovered a group of kindred souls: the “hungry generation” poets like Shakti Chattopadhyay and Sunil Gangopadhyay.
Related:
- New York Times review of A Blue Hand.
- Buy it on Amazon.
