A Blue Hand
A Blue Hand

Author: Deborah Baker

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published:

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780670082285

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In 1961, 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. Drawing From Extensive Research, Undiscovered Letters, Journals, And Memoirs, Acclaimed Biographer Deborah Baker Has Woven A Many-Layered Literary Mystery Out Of Ginsberg S Odyssey. A Blue Hand 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 And Of Devastating Poverty And Political Unease. In Calcutta, Ginsberg Discovers A Circle Of Hungry Young Writers Whose Outrageousness And Genius Are Uncannily Reminiscent Of His Own Past. Finally, Ginsberg Searches For Hope Savage, The Mysterious And Beautiful Girl Whose Path, Before She Disappeared, Had Crossed His Own In Greenwich Village, San Francisco, And Paris. In Their Restless, Comic And Oft-Times Tortured Search For Meaning, The Beats Looked To India For Answers While India Looked To The West. A Blue Hand Is The Story Of Their Search For God, For Love, And For Peace In The Shadow Of The Atomic Bomb. It Is Also A Story Of India Its Gods And Its Poets, Its Politics And Its Place In The American Imagination. A Fabulous Book Comic, Tragic, And Written With Great Verve And Nerve About The Beats And Their Passage To India Michael Ondaatje A Passionate Account Of The Beats At Home And In The World & A Truly Vivid, Wonderful Book Kiran Desai, Author Of The Inheritance Of Loss A Fascinating History Of The Weirdest Moment In The Long And Ongoing European And American Search For The Answer To It All In India Wendy Doniger, University Of Chicago Baker Evokes Strange Worlds And Distant Times In A Narrative That Never Fails To Flow And That, In The End, Is Admirably Illuminating Kirkus Reviews [A] Thoroughly Compelling Work Of Illuminating Literary And Spiritual History Booklist A Piece Of Devoted Scholarship And Legwork The New York Times

A Blue Hand
A Blue Hand

Author: Deb Baker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1440629315

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In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.

Blue Hand Mojo
Blue Hand Mojo

Author: John Jennings

Publisher: Blue Hand Mojo

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780990319146

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1931. Bronzeville. Chicago. The mage, Frank Half Dead Johnson, is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (aka The Devil) himself. This graphic novel chronicles three adventures with this tragic conjure man. Watch as Half Dead attempts to save his own soul, pay his debt, and help as many people as he can along the way. It's a hard-hitting Hoodoo Noir highball with just a splash of Southern Gothic. Smack-dab in the dark heart of the Windy City. Hold on tight! It's going to be a bumpy ride down Hard Times Road.

Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand

Author: Franz Werfel

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1567924085

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This story is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov.

Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book
Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book

Author: Phil Gordon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1416938702

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In Poker: The Real Deal and Phil Gordon's Little Green Book, Phil Gordon -- a world-class player and teacher -- shared the strategies, tips, and expertise he's gleaned during his phenomenally successful career. Now, he shows players how to apply those theories to actual hands in order to make smart, confident decisions with every move. Gordon walks readers through hands that he's encountered in cash games; early, middle, and late tournament play; Sit & Gos; satellites and supersatellites; and the final table of the World Series of Poker, revealing not only what plays he made but also why he made them. He relates what goes through a pro's mind in every situation, whether it's a timely bluff or a questionable call, and helps players calculate their own best moves in the most pressure-fueled of situations. In analyzing specific hands, Gordon also imparts important lessons in key poker skills such as calculating odds, shorthanded play, and discovering tells. And he discusses memorable plays -- the good and the oh-so-bad -- explaining why certain moves were made and, in many cases, how the hands should have been played differently. Insightful, witty, and filled with real-life pro secrets, Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book is required reading for every player looking to make a profit and raise his game to the next level.

My Grandmother's Hands
My Grandmother's Hands

Author: Resmaa Menakem

Publisher: Central Recovery Press

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1942094485

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary. Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

The Last Englishmen
The Last Englishmen

Author: Deborah Baker

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1555979947

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A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.

Race and the Invisible Hand
Race and the Invisible Hand

Author: Deirdre Royster

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-10-02

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0520937376

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From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white peers? And if not, then why do black men trail white men in earnings and employment rates? Royster seeks an answer in the experiences of 25 black and 25 white men who graduated from the same vocational school and sought jobs in the same blue-collar labor market in the early 1990s. After seriously examining the educational performances, work ethics, and values of the black men for unique deficiencies, her study reveals the greatest difference between young black and white men—access to the kinds of contacts that really help in the job search and entry process.

A Blue Hand
A Blue Hand

Author: Deborah Baker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781594201585

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Baker presents a literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey--led by Allen Ginsberg--that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike.