South American Journals: January-July 1960

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be another experience in the Beat poet’s journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing—whether in the poetry that had already earned him international accla...