Monday, May 31, 2010

Peter Orlovsky, 1933-2010


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




4 comments:

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

TC said...

Ed, take heart, it's not just you, the old/sad/silly/vulnerable thing is going around. He said.

John B. Burroughs said...

Thank you.

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