A Life in Paris – February 1, 1960

Tonight I give a poesy reading here with some French boys…

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Tonight I give a poesy reading here with some French boys and maybe something will happen here; only reason I’m reading with them. I can’t read to jazz so won’t; but they will; it should be interesting, as it has not been done here since the beginning of the war; I think.

Gregory Corso, to Peter Orlovsky

Notes:
• From An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso 
• Gregory Corso was an American poet and part of the Beat Generation.

A Life in Paris – January 17, 1958

Peter Orlovsky sailed to Americay. Gare St. Lazare with Bill [Burroughs]…

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Peter Orlovsky sailed to Americay. Gare St. Lazare with Bill [Burroughs] 5:35 Friday Evening — pernod & chocolate in café — Peter and I kissing at station.

Allen Ginsberg

Notes:
• From Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958
• Allen Ginsberg was an American writer.