Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer
Can anyone talk to me, hold me as I am? This is a poignant, intimate, and captivating document of the inner life of Peter Orlovsky, life-long mainstay to Allen Ginsberg, and crucial to the Beat annals. Sad noble Peter, truly an angel and not my joke boy, Allen wrote in 1955. Yet Peter was keenly present albeit a shy participant in one of the most exciting periods in radical belletristic cultural and political time. I knew him as poet, singer, fellow-Buddhist Naropa teacher, and friend. I can still hear his yodel as he rode his tractor. May he have his say here, out of the shadows and into our hearts. --Anne Waldman, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University