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Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words - Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer (Hardcover)
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Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words - Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer (Hardcover)
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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 Drawn from previously unpublished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.
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