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By luke kurtis

In 1963, Allen Ginsberg traveled to Cambodia and visited the traditional Khmer temples. He wrote "Angkor Wat," an eponymous poem concerning the temple advanced. It was once a really varied time: pre-Vietnam warfare, pre-Khmer Rouge, and prior to the bustling tourism alternate that's now the lifeblood of Siem gain. but the Angkor temples themselves stay a distinct resource of suggestion for poets and photographers who commute there from everywhere in the world.

Over part a century later, Angkor Wat by means of luke kurtis is either the artist's homage to Ginsberg's textual content in addition a party of his personal pilgrimages to the traditional urban. released in 1968, Ginsberg's Angkor Wat ebook used to be a unmarried lengthy poem observed via pictures through Alexandra Lawrence. kurtis's booklet is a collection of poems paired together with his unique images. Chronicling the poet's personal travels the place he explored legendary tales and skilled mystical visions, kurtis's poems take you on a travel of Angkor Wat (and past) not like the other and inform the tale of 1 American poet deepening his Buddhist spirituality.

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