Sunday 25 December 2011

Hope Savage: Mystery Girl, by Kevin Ring

The latest chapbook (No 32) from The Beat Scene, this title attempts to trace Gregory Corso's muse, Hope Savage, who disappeared in India in the early 1960s. While many regard Savage as long dead, others are convinced she is still alive. An anonymous blogger claimed to have met her in Iran, Pakistan and Nepal in the mid-1970s, and in her book A Blue Hand: The Beats in India ( Penguin, 2008) Deborah Baker even hints that she may know of Savage's (then) whereabouts.
A captivating, yet distressing essay on yet another 'minor character' in the Beat saga.
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Posted by Gary Cummiskey at Sunday, December 25, 2011
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1 comments:

pam said...

I enjoyed the article very much....left me feeling that perhaps the 'free spirit'Hope S. was a wakeup to the fickle mind of Gregory Corso......and G.C. wanted what he couldn't have.....she certainly left a permanent mark in his mind......and left me wanting to know more and more of what ever happened to her, I want to know more about her......I guess that's the reaction of people to most mysteries......PAM SCOTT

15 January 2012 11:53 PM

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