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Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
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Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 Paperback - 2000

by Joanne Kyger


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Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.

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  • Title Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
  • Author Joanne Kyger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Language EN
  • Publisher North Atlantic Books
  • Date 2000-09-15
  • ISBN 9781556433375

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"Kyger is 'self' conscious enough to laugh at herself. She never stoops to sentimentalizing, never drifts into writing-as-therapy, as so much current 'journaling' does. Yet the writing of these pages is her salvation."
—Anne Waldman, from the Foreword

"Her journals chronicle what it meant to be a woman trying to write in those pre-feminist beat days, when men were the ones designated as spiritual and creative. Kyger has a sharp wit and a sharper eye."
—Miriam Sagan

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Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
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Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964

by Joanne Kyger; Foreword-Anne Waldman

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