Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words
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Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words
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Author : Peter Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words written by Peter Orlovsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Authors, American categories.
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words
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Author : Peter Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-03
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words written by Peter Orlovsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-03 with Social Science categories.
Until now, the poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg's lover for more than forty years, has been the neglected member of the Beat Generation. Because he lived in Ginsberg's shadow, his achievements were seldom noted and his contributions to literature have not been fully recognised. Now, this first collection of Orlovsky's writings traces his fascinating life in his own words. It also tells, for the first time, the intimate story of his relationship with Ginsberg. Drawn from previously unpublished journals, correspondence, photographs and poems, Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words, begins as Orlovsky is discharged from the Army; follows the young man through years of self-doubt and details his first meeting with Ginsberg in San Francisco from his own perspective. In never-before-heard detail, Orlovsky describes his travels around the world with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and Corso. The book also delves into the contradictions that ultimately defined him: best known as Ginsberg's lover, Orlovsky was heterosexual and always longed to be with women; his spirit was prescient of the flower children of the sixties - especially his inclinations toward devotion and love - but in the end his use of drugs took its toll on his body and mind, silencing one of the most original and inspiring voices of his generation.
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words
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Author : Peter Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Release Date : 2014
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words written by Peter Orlovsky and has been published by Paradigm Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Authors, American categories.
"The Peter Orlovsky you will meet in this book has only a slight resemblance to the wacky kid immortalized in Kerouac's sunny pages as 'the greatest man in San Francisco' or the silent companion in Ginsberg's tender poetry. Here, for the first time, Bill Morgan has used Peter's words to take us behind his handsome face. Orlovsky's journals, letters, and poems offer us glimpses of his mind with and without Ginsberg." -from the Foreword by Ann Charters, editor of The Portable Beat Reader Until now, the poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg's lover for more than forty years, has been the neglected member of the Beat Generation. Because he lived in Ginsberg's shadow, his achievements were seldom noted and his contributions to literature have not been fully recognized. Now, this first collection of Orlovsky's writings traces his fascinating life in his own words. It also tells, for the first time, the intimate story of his relationship with Ginsberg. Drawn from previously unpublished journals, correspondence, photographs, and poems, Peter Ovlovsky, a Life in Words, begins just as Orlovsky is discharged from the Army, having declared that it was "an army without love." The book follows the young man through years of self-doubt and details his first meeting with Ginsberg in San Francisco from his own perspective. During that same year, Peter, always acting as the caregiver in his relationships, adopted his teenage mentally impaired brother, and tried to help him make a life for himself. In never-before-heard detail, Orlovsky describes his travels around the world with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, and Corso-whose writings so often benefited from knowing the highly creative and inspiring Orlovsky. Orlovsky's story is a refreshing departure from the established history of the Beats as depicted by his more famous companions. The reader will discover why Jack Kerouac described him as the saintly figure of Simon Darlovsky in Desolation Angels and why the elder poet William Carlos Williams praised his poetry as "pure American." His was a complicated life, this book shows, filled with contradictions. Best known as Ginsberg's lover, Orlovsky was heterosexual and always longed to be with women. Always humble, he became a teacher at a Buddhist college and taught a class that he entitled "Poetry for Dumb Students." His spirit was prescient of the flower children of the sixties, especially his inclinations toward devotion and love. In the end Orlovsky's use of drugs took its toll on his body and mind and he slipped into his own hell of addiction and mental illness, silencing one of the most original and inspiring voices of his generation.
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words
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Author : Peter Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-03
Peter Orlovsky A Life In Words written by Peter Orlovsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-03 with Social Science categories.
Until now, the poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg's lover for more than forty years, has been the neglected member of the Beat Generation. Because he lived in Ginsberg's shadow, his achievements were seldom noted and his contributions to literature have not been fully recognised. Now, this first collection of Orlovsky's writings traces his fascinating life in his own words. It also tells, for the first time, the intimate story of his relationship with Ginsberg. Drawn from previously unpublished journals, correspondence, photographs and poems, Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words, begins as Orlovsky is discharged from the Army; follows the young man through years of self-doubt and details his first meeting with Ginsberg in San Francisco from his own perspective. In never-before-heard detail, Orlovsky describes his travels around the world with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and Corso. The book also delves into the contradictions that ultimately defined him: best known as Ginsberg's lover, Orlovsky was heterosexual and always longed to be with women; his spirit was prescient of the flower children of the sixties - especially his inclinations toward devotion and love - but in the end his use of drugs took its toll on his body and mind, silencing one of the most original and inspiring voices of his generation.
Ingenious Pleasures
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Author : Drew Gardner
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2023-06-01
Ingenious Pleasures written by Drew Gardner and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Poetry categories.
By tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetry’s DNA all along: uncovering the poetic values hidden in unpoetic things. This unique anthology introduces readers to collage-driven poetry that embodies the sensibilities of punk, trash, and camp in a line of writing that cuts through received taxonomies of movements, influences, and styles. Moving through the twentieth century, the poetry focuses on the unexpected, the anarchic, the demotic, the absurd, the irreverent, the coarse, the rude, and the deliriously playful. It marks an alternative strain of modernism that stretches from one side of the century to the other and includes such diverse voices as Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Russell Atkins, Sun Ra, and Bernadette Mayer, along with many other well-known and lesser-known poets. Readers of Ingenious Pleasures will delight in experiencing poetry as they never have before.
The Letters Of Allen Ginsberg
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Author : Allen Ginsberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-09-02
The Letters Of Allen Ginsberg written by Allen Ginsberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Poetry categories.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of twentieth-century literature's most prolific letter-writers. This definitive volume showcases his correspondence with some of the most original and interesting artists of his time, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lionel Trilling, Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Glass, Arthur Miller, Ken Kesey, and hundreds of others. Through his letter writing, Ginsberg coordinated the efforts of his literary circle and kept everyone informed about what everyone else was doing. He also preached the gospel of the Beat movement by addressing political and social issues in countless letters to publishers, editors, and the news media, devising an entirely new way to educate readers and disseminate information. Drawing from numerous sources, this collection is both a riveting life in letters and an intimate guide to understanding an entire creative generation.
Clean Asshole Poems Smiling Vegetable Songs
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Author : Peter Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Clean Asshole Poems Smiling Vegetable Songs written by Peter Orlovsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Gay men categories.
In these poems we have a lyrical outburst which is tellingly organized ... The beatniks have much to learn from him. --William Carlos Williams.
I Celebrate Myself
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Author : Bill Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-09-25
I Celebrate Myself written by Bill Morgan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.
Words In Air
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Author : Elizabeth Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Words In Air written by Elizabeth Bishop and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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Author : Bill Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2011-05-01
The Typewriter Is Holy written by Bill Morgan and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beat writers, narrates their history, tracing their origins in the 1940s to their influence on the social upheaval of the 1960s. The Beats, through their words and nonconformist lives, challenged staid postwar America. They believed in free expression, dabbled in free love, and condemned the increasing influence of military and corporate culture in our national life. But the Beats were not saints. They did too many drugs and consumed too much booze. The fervent belief in spontaneity that characterized their lives and writings destroyed some friendships. As we watch their peripatetic lives and sexual misadventures, we are reminded above all that while their personal lives may not have been holy, their typewriters and their lasting words very much were.