Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky take a tugboat ride.
This short, silent film was made in 1969, when Allen Ginsberg and his partner and fellow poet Peter Orlovsky were invited to ride on the trial run of the newly built tugboat Elsbeth. Ginsberg became friends with the tug's builder, Latham Smith, while observing the boat's construction. There's more about this in the current New Yorker.
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Allen was my poetry prof at NYU back in 1995. What a gentle soul. He read us something of Jack Kerouacs and you could tell by the end he was about to cry, he still missed him that much.
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