The Beats: San Francisco

First Poem

First Poem

Peter Orlovsky From Yugen No. 3. New York:
LeRoi Jones and Hetty Cohen, 1958.
Marvin Tatum Collection of Contemporary Literature.

Allen Ginsberg met twenty-year-old Peter Orlovsky within a year of his arrival in San Francisco, and the two quickly became inseparable. Orlovsky traveled with Ginsberg to Tangiers to help Burroughs work on Naked Lunch and accompanied him on subsequent journeys to India, Nepal, and Japan. Peter Orlovsky, like his New York counterparts, Cassady, Huncke, and Solomon, contributed more to the Beat movement through his presence than from his actual literary output.

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