A Blue Hand : Allen Ginsberg And The Beats In India

Deborah Baker

Non-Fiction

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In 1961, the American poet Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay. He brought with him his troubled lover, Peter Orlovsky, and a plan to meet up with poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. He left behind not only fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and William Burroughs, but also the relentless notoriety that followed the publication of Howl, the epic work that branded him the voice of a generation. A Blue Hand deftly weaves a many-layered literary mystery out of Ginsberg’s odyssey, recounting the Beats’ quest for God, for truth, and for peace in the shadow of the atom bomb. Drawing from extensive research, undiscovered letters, journals and memoirs, acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker follows the poet and his companions as they travel from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium dens and the burning pyres of Benares. They encounter an India of charlatans and saints, a country of spectacular beauty and spiritual promise as well as devastating poverty and political unease. In their restless, tortured and often comic search for meaning, the Beats looked to India for answers while India looked to the West. A Blue Hand is as much a brilliant account of Ginsberg’s journey as it is a story of India in the 1960s—its gods and its poets, its politics and its place in the American imagination.

Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker born in Charlottesville and grew up in Virginia, Puerto Rico and New England. She attended the University of Virginia and Cambridge University. Her first biography, written in college, was Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly, published by Beacon Press in 1982. After working a number of years as a book editor and publisher, in 1990 she moved to Calcutta where she wrote In Extremis; The Life of Laura Riding. Published by Grove Press and Hamish Hamilton in the UK, it was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 1994. Her third book, A Blue Hand: The Beats in India was published by Penguin Press USA and Penguin India in 2008. In 2008–2009 she was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis C. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at The New York Public Library. There she researched and wrote The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, a narrative account of the life of an American convert to Islam, drawn on letters on deposit in the library’s manuscript division. The Convert, published by Graywolf and Penguin India, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Non-Fiction. In August 2018, she published her fifth work of non-fiction, The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire.

Title	A Blue Hand : Allen Ginsberg And The Beats In India
Author	Deborah Baker
Number of Pages	244
Language	English (US)
Category	Non-Fiction
First Published	JAN 2011