Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983.

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Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590485

Papers include diaries, drafts of poems, dreams, and conversations, sketchbooks, correspondence, miscellaneous materials, and work by other writers. Orlovsky's diaries documenting his life during the 1960s and 1970s comprise the majority of the collection. Mentioned in the many of the diaries are literary and artistic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, John Giorno, Robert LaVigne, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, and Anne Waldman. Poem drafts include work from Clean Asshole Poems and Smiling Vegetable Songs, Straight Hearts' Delight, and a series of fragments. Outgoing letters to Orlovsky's parents and his siblings, Lafcadio and Marie, represent much of the correspondence. Incoming letters are from his mother, Katherine, and Susan Joan Gorbea.

2 boxes (0.84 linear feet).

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

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Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...