“Ginsberg had remained passionately connected to his belief in poetry as a vital link to salvation, and to his equally strong belief in the importance of his literary friendships…Yet, as time passes, these friendships seem more and more to occupy a dreamlike space in Ginsberg’s head, where they serve to invoke the mythic rather than actualize the present.”

–Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker, Poetry, July/August 2008