Issa's Untidy Hut: Peter Orlovsky, 1933-2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Peter Orlovsky (Allen Ginsberg)

Peter Orlovsky: a beautiful remembrance from Tom Clark and accounting of his passing by Anne Waldman.

today again
death draws nearer...
the wildflowers
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

Ed Baker said...: sometime I feel silly
and some times I feel sad and old/vulnerable
this is sad

(I met him once in 1974)

for my Two-cents... the very best of the Beats

http://www.boppin.com/orlovsky.html#1

and his attitude re: spelling... priceless; May 31, 2010 at 2:17 PM
TC said...: Ed, take heart, it's not just you, the old/sad/silly/vulnerable thing is going around. He said.; May 31, 2010 at 2:29 PM
John B. Burroughs said...: Thank you.; June 1, 2010 at 7:48 AM
Issa's Untidy Hut said...: Ed, many thanks for the link to Peter's poem, Tom, for the wisdom & truth ...

Thanks for the kind words, Grant -

... and J; June 1, 2010 at 4:28 PM