Allen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- _Queer_ & _Yage_ letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment.Allen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- _Queer_ & _Yage_ letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment.
Allen GinsbergGelek Rimpoche, Tibetan Vajrayana teacher, visited to say Goodbye at his student Yael Crawford's house, Cleveland, Ohio, I'd stayed over with Philip Glass for Jewel Heart Meditation Center benefit. A Friend gave me this cloth-sewn Uncle Sam hat, too small for Rimpoche's dome. He'd just gotten U.S.A. citizenship & passport. Dalai Lama enshrined over mantel. March 20, 1995.
Allen GinsbergRobert Frank and Allen Ginsberg at Frank's Apartment
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky smoking Indian Hemp, November 1962 at Konarak beside fallen segment of stone sculpture —
Allen GinsbergSandro Chia & William S. Burroughs, March 30, 1985 at Francesco Clemente's opening Castelli Gallery New York.
Allen GinsbergFond Kiki William's friend, W.S. Burroughs, Chris Wanklin at another table in T-shirt, Soco Chico Tanger Maroc circa mid-fifties, negative in my archives.
Allen GinsbergKaren Minzer & Babe, Dallas. This is the good one. The eyes strong
Allen GinsbergJohn Giorno, Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer through Giorno Poetry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teachers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987.
Allen GinsbergDic Jones, ex Bardic Chair-holder, farmer on school steps where Eisteddfod Englynion contest was held. _In the Night_: "No hymn of birds, no Tremor -- save the sounds of the sea's sad tenor, / The stars ascend in splendor / and the dark creeps round the door." Aberystwyth, Wales April 8, 1995.
Allen GinsbergRay Bremser master poet returned to New York after 8 years' absence, wrinkle-faced as before, to attend my "Rainbow Body Reading Series" at Brooklyn College & same night read at St. Mark's Church Poetry Project. Next evening we did two Poetry reading shows together for jazz club-- Village Vanguard anniversary week celebrations. He left early next morning by bus, for safety from drink, to his upstate New York Utica apartment. Saw him this way the night before all the poetry scenes, at my home, February 21, 1995.
Allen GinsbergLance Hendrickson, Tangier, 1961. We met in street, he was hiking thru Europe, stayed a week, chaste, but allowed me to photograph him thus. Saw him again in San Francisco 1963 w/ a motorcycle.
Allen GinsbergAll dressed up with tie & tweed jacket, recently matriculated for M.A. at U.C. Berkeley, I'd just written Part II _Howl_, _Supermarket in California_, & _Sunflower Sutra_, clean-shaven poet, on Berkeley Street lighting a coffin-nail, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hands, 1956.
Allen GinsbergHugh MacDiarmid on his 81'st Birthday at gate of his cottage, Biggar, Scotland summer 1973.
Allen GinsbergActing tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & relaxed together, Gutterboy on the roof, Empire State building a distant spire, East Twelfth Street September 12, 1991.
Allen GinsbergLorenzo & Larry Ferlinghetti, stopover in Fiji on way to Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia March 72
Allen GinsbergLucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard _Old Angel Midnight_ eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986.
Allen GinsbergInternment of Julian Beck August 19, 1985 New Jersey cemetery—Among Living Theater folk Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach with filigreed yarmulke front left, tall Hanon, daughter Isha holding Judith Malina widow weeping goodbye, Bob Foss carrying tape machine, Poet Jackson Machour centered, eldest son Garrick Beck emptying first shovel of earth into fosse, at right.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type _The Soft Machine_ cut-up writings, Gregory Corso sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muniria, my Kodak Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tangier Moroc.
Allen GinsbergWilliam Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into books not published till decades later (as _Queer_, 1985) Lower East Side Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergRobert Frank, inquisitive private look not unkind, patient, "Maybe I could show you something too." Kiev Restaurant, 2'nd Avenue & 7th Street, March 7, 1984.
Allen GinsbergThe first shopping cart street prophet I'd directly noticed, fall leaves scattered on Tompkins Park sidewalk, Avenue A & St. Mark's Place, over 40 years ago. Leshko's Restaurant was cheap and popular as at present on the corner a block south, I had my snapshots developed at a drugstore near Park Center eatery across the street on S. W. Corner, & was living with W. S. Burroughs a few blocks away 206 East 7th street - working as copyboy on now-defunct "New York World Telegram," my apartment rent $29.00 a month, three small rooms. October, 1953.
Allen GinsbergRobert Frank at his kitchen table, Bleeker Street house, casual visit, November 8, 1988, New York City.
Allen GinsbergPhilip Whalen, sensei staying over in my bedroom E. 12 Street, visiting N.Y. from Santa Fe Zen Center, he poetized & lectured at my Brooklyn College class "Literary History of Beat Generation." March 16, 1987.
Allen GinsbergPeter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (_Desolation Angels_) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
Allen GinsbergSan Francisco "K." Commune feeds hundreds of homeless folk on Saturdays and their Small Free Inn Band puts on a show, we had a private viewing when visiting Irving Rosenthal & Friends May 23, 1988-- in their vegetarian-grain soup-kitchen, Jimmy Gutierrez in cap watching Jeannie- single hand to heart John O'Brien first time in Curlers, Chandler hand raised in lyric surprise, shadow-eyed Gren behind music stand. "I saw it in a millinery shop-window in 1928... They look like they're made of wax," Harry Smith noticed later.
Allen GinsbergGutterboy band—Barb Morrison, Dito Montiel Danny Hulsizer with button shirt & his brother Eric, with drummer Johnny Koncz on Canal Street
Allen GinsbergGary Snyder Poet & Zen student out on mountainside forest hike near Sea of Japan, July 1963.
Allen GinsbergJesse Cabrera Lover & Neeli Cherkovski, Kaye MacDonough, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline & friends, plateglass of Trieste Coffeeshop Grant Street San Francisco March 16, 1985, Camera snapshot by Gregory Corso's finger.
Allen GinsbergJohn Giorno, Henry Geldzahler, in his garden West 9th Street, N.Y.C., Raymond Foye, A. Ginsberg rear, next to Francesco Clemente (whose Castelli - Mary Boone painting show was to open later that day with receptions), William Burroughs stepping forward glass in hand arms round Alan Ansen's shoulders, March 30, 1985. Snapped by Ira Silverberg. Allen Ginsberg![Gelek Rimpoche from Lhasa and Ann Arbor unwrapping Tibetan text & beginning to chant it, Tokden Rinpoche, handling brass Vajia (Diamond Lightning Bolt) and Ghanta (Bell) Sonam, former chanting. master of Gyuto Tantric College idling behind them at picnic table outside lodge shrine-room after lunch, "just fooling around rather than having a ceremony." Sonam came in from Chicago, Tokden from Eastern Tibet to give oral Transmissions of one-volume short-form _Prajnaparamita_ [Highest perfect wisdom] _Sutra_ to Gelek's hundred students. "Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!" Over annual summer retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan, August 27, 1993., Allen Ginsberg, 1993, printed 1995](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/b1ae88f0-bb0c-4b98-bd7f-3d50148b518e/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Allen GinsbergGelek Rimpoche from Lhasa and Ann Arbor unwrapping Tibetan text & beginning to chant it, Tokden Rinpoche, handling brass Vajia (Diamond Lightning Bolt) and Ghanta (Bell) Sonam, former chanting. master of Gyuto Tantric College idling behind them at picnic table outside lodge shrine-room after lunch, "just fooling around rather than having a ceremony." Sonam came in from Chicago, Tokden from Eastern Tibet to give oral Transmissions of one-volume short-form _Prajnaparamita_ [Highest perfect wisdom] _Sutra_ to Gelek's hundred students. "Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!" Over annual summer retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan, August 27, 1993.
Allen GinsbergSelf-portrait in guest-suite mirror, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October 10, 1985, I'd lectured on Ezra Pound, Poetized in private high school & visited Jefferson's Monticello.
Allen GinsbergTrieste Cafe corner Grant & Vallejo-- Neeli Cherkovski & his friend Dr. Jesse Cabrera, Gregory Corso holding son Nile, mother Kaye MacDonough behind them-- Painter daubing Trieste window- interior, morning haunt of poets & North Beach Bohemians to this day March 16, 1985.
Allen GinsbergAlexei Ginzberg and Sergei Yesenin-vulpine, Moscow 1965.
Allen GinsbergJoe Richey and New York ladies on Roland Leggiardi-Laura's film crew, waiting at Ministerio de Cultura door, outside Managua, January 23, 1986
Allen GinsbergFrancesco Clemente, artist, & C.T. Nachiappan (his printer host in Madras at Kalakshetra Press -- Hanuman Editions) at Kiev restaurant on Second Avenue and 7th Street
Allen GinsbergOdalisque, my bedroom on East 12th Street March 22, 1985, New York, young boy friend naked took this picture after I'd taken his in similar repose.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso 1964 N.Y.C. my apartment East 6th Street? No 704 E. 5th Street says Peter Orlovsky.
Allen GinsbergFrancesco Clemente taking a break from painting my portrait in oil, his first from life model, here working on background of imaginary Afric head, his studio Broadway & Great Jones Street. We'd done several illuminated books together (notably _White Shroud_ 1984) & he'd published my Blake discourse "Your Reason & Blake's System" in his Palm-sized Hanuman Editions. Manhattan December 14, 1989.
Allen GinsbergShig Murao, up late night reading in his middle bedroom, he'd had a stroke just after mastering Shakuhachi flute, I stay in his Grant Street North Block apartment when visiting San Francisco, his front room looks down on noisy street & bars. He'd managed City Lights Bookstore, part owner, 1950s all thru the sixties
Allen GinsbergKen Kesey'd come to New York to perform his Bear myth Cantata at Lincoln Center, I visited at midnight his room Hotel Excelsior 81st Street near Planetarium, he held still a second in lamplight, said he had second thoughts about his former Monotheist faith after bus-crash demise of his athlete son. December 14, 1989.
Allen GinsbergDorothy Norman recovering from broken leg, her house Easthampton July 7, 1985 - we'd met in late 1950s, I'd known her as editor of Civil-libertarian 1930s _Twice a Year_ journal - same decade she'd been Alfred Stieglitz’s love, he'd photographed her hands in this mudra 1932.
Allen GinsbergJack Kerouac, Villa Mouneria Garden Wall, Tangier—he’d preceded me & Peter O. on Yugoslav freighter by a month to help Type Burroughs’ Interzone “word-board” manuscript assembled for Naked Lunch. Jack left for Paris a week and a half later, On the Road published earlier that year—he’d already written twelve books, Visions, Dreams, Blues, in the “Legend of Duluoz” series, up to Desolation Angels Part I, late 1957.
Allen GinsbergTom Parkinson visiting upstairs office City Lights Books 261 Columbus San Francisco March 16, 1985.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso - Tangier 1961 - Peter & my room -
Allen GinsbergJack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergWilliam Burroughs, 11 PM late March 1985, being driven home to 222 Bowery. Experimenting with hand held half-second Rolleiflex exposure, camera upside down for view, Burroughs phantom in street light stop sign illumination fuzzy, couldn’t move back further to focus sharper, I was in rear seat.
Allen GinsbergPoet Philip Whalen, Jerry Heiserman (later Hassan, Sufi) & student Thomas Jackrell (who'd writ interesting document-poem on Campbell's Soup) en route thru Portland Oregon returning from Vancouver Poetry Conference (with Olson Creeley Duncan Levertov) back to Bay Area, July 1963. Jackrell had a camper truck, we stopped to visit Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College, drink Buttermilk downtown.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky age 23 on Ginny Lehrman's lawn Berkeley