It's Peter Orlovsky's parinirvana again. Remembering Allen's life-time love, Peter.
Check out these earlier postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project - here and here
See also here and here
also, noticing his passing - here
and (recommended) - Steve Silberman's touching 2010 elegy - here
and Rob Epstein andJeffrey Friedman's memories - here
The New York Times& Washington Post obituaries
& Tom Clark's memory-posting - here
Ann Charters in the English Bookshop in Stockholm in 2014 recalls, in some depth, her relationship with. and memories of, Peter, reading from Bill Morgan's book,Peter Orlovsky - A Life In Words(including a reading of Allen's "Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo" and "Sunflower Sutra" - for their Orlovsky connection, and a reading by her husband Samof two of (Jack) Kerouac's Mexico City Blues)
Rose Feliu Pettetrecalls Peter Orlovsky here - and further video moments from St Marks Poetry Project's 2010 memorial may be glimpsed here
Here's the unforgettable voice of Peter singing"You Are My Dildo" (sic)
and an odd-little-item, a Peter Orlovsky rehearsal tape (Peter making several attempts at a version of William Blake's "A Dream" (from Songs of Innocence) ("home, home, home"), as well as, (half-recognizeable), a paean to Tibetan saint, Milarepa (to that unforgettable tune of "You Are My Dildo")
Here's Peter as a saint or holy man (or, at least playing one!), Rick Shaw (sic), in rare footage from Marc Israel's 2001 film, Frankenstein's Little Monster
More Orlovsky on the Ginsberg blog:
Here's selections from the beautiful Ginsberg-Orlovsky letters, Straight Hearts Delight
Here's a 1975 reading with Jackson MacLow
and here's a challenging"triple X" reading
Here's Peter, continuing to be sex-positive (from Constanzo Allione's Fried Shoes And Cooked Diamonds)
and more rare footage of Peter reading - here