GETTING DOWN AT BHUBANESHWAR

About the Book

Westerners often travel to India for revelation. This book chronicles three trips made there  by two Westerners,  the author and his wife, over nine years. Revelation did occur to them as an aspect of those trips though perhaps not in any form they might have anticipated. India is an assault upon everything from the five senses to one’s sense of history and religion, one's sense of the whole world in fact. It overturns, it overwhelms all categories and assumptions. It knocked  two seasoned travelers off their bases as the pages  of this book demonstrate. And enriched them too. Irruptive India.

About the Author

William Guy (when he is not traveling) lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Gravity’s Revolt, a novel; Defunctive Music, a book of poems;A Traveler’s Education; Magic Casements; and Something Sensational, three books of travel essays. With William Orr he is the author of Living Hope: a Study of the New Testament Theme of Birth from Above. He has completed a translation of The Iliad. He is presently at work on The Lyndoniad, a book of interrelated poems about the year 1968, a long poem containing history (he hopes).