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Day: August 5, 1994

Peter Orlovsky

Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein August 5, 1994 No Comments

Peter Orlovsky was staying with painter Robert LaVigne in San Francisco in 1954 when Allen Ginsberg dropped by for a visit. The two fell together almost instantly, and remained a couple for three decades. Their relationship had rocky periods and was never monogamous (Peter Orlovsky had heterosexual leanings, for one … Read the rest

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Howl

Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein August 5, 1994 No Comments

‘You feel like you are going through the gutter when you have to read that stuff. I didn’t linger on it too long, I assure you.’
(an elocution teacher, at the obscenity trial for ‘Howl’)

‘Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell’
(William … Read the rest

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