The Japan and India Journals 19601964 Author:Joanne Kyger 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,... more » witty, and always entertaining, this is poet?s prose at its best.« less