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Joan MiróWoman and Bird in Front of the Moon (Femme et oiseau devant la lune)
Joan MiróUntitled from Flight
Joan MiróPlate (folio 27 verso) from Le Lézard aux plumes d'or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers)
Joan MiróPlate (page 37) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 97) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Allen GinsbergRebecca Ginsberg, Buba, wife of Pincus, laundry-man later tobacco store owner, my paternal grandmother (b. Russia near Kaminetz-Podolska May 1869–d. July 1962) visiting her elder son Louis’ house, here 84 years old at table for Seder preparations. She’d attended Adult Education English classes in Newark 14 years earlier, written patriotic essay declaring “God Blast America!” Younger son Uncle Abe & daughters Aunt Rose, Clara & H.S. teacher Hannah were her children. Dining room 428 East 34th Street, Paterson New Jersey April 1953.
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 74) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Allen GinsbergLouis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 93) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Allen GinsbergWilliam Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of _Yage Letters_ & _Queer_ mss.
Allen GinsbergDonald Cook and his son Michael, an apartment near Columbia University, Francis Mechner in background, young psychology grad students. Later they proposed innovating Basic Systems Computer teaching machines. New York, Fall 1953.
Joan MiróTitle page from Album 13
Allen GinsbergLafcadio, 17, and Peter Orlovsky, 22, at door their apartment 5 Turner Terrace, S.F. 1956, Lafcadio looking for a job was cutting school, Peter was worried. These were new-built cheap rent veteran's apartments on Potrero Hill dominated by a giant gas tank.
Joan MiróMonument
Allen GinsbergNeal Cassady New York 1964 on visit with Ken Kesey's bus.
Allen GinsbergCarl Solomon in his Prince Street apartment several years after we were locked up together in residence on Sixth Floor ward, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He got shock treatments, introduced me to Jean Genet’s _Miracle of the Rose_ and Antonin Artaud’s _Van Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society_ translations, I stayed eight months, weekends off. Afterwards, working mid-town at his uncle’s Ace Books publications, he gave Kerouac small advance on first _On the Road_ sketches (scroll later rejected), saw Jaime DeAngulo’s classic _Indian Tales_ first hard-back through press, & edited William Burroughs’ _Junkie_ paperback first edition. New York, 1953.
Joan MiróDouble page plate (between pages 60 and 61) from King Roi (Ubu Roi)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 85) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróYoung Girl
Allen GinsbergWise-eyed Alan Ansen, Polymath expatriate & eccentric, at San Sammuelle motorscaffe station, half-street from his apartment 3219 della Carrozza where Peter Orlovsky & I spent happy summer 1957- Ansen also hosted Wm. Burroughs & Gregory Corso. Harvard Classics summa cum laude 1942, Poet, critic, he was secretary & Prosodic Conscience to W.H. Auden during early 40’s _Age of Anxiety_, thereafter lifelong intimate of Auden & companion Chester Kallman-- as with William Burroughs whose _Naked Lunch_ & later ravings he helped type & edit in Tangier 1957 & 1961. A familiar at San Remo village bar & Kerouac's companions' revels in late 1940's, he's sketched as "Rollo Grab" in _On the Road_, "Ronald Swenson" in _Visons of Cody_ and _Book of Dreams_, "Austin Bromberg" in _The Subterraneans_ & Amadeus Baroque, _Doctor Sex_....
Joan MiróPlate IX from The Ring of Dawn Suite (Suite la bague d'aurore)
Joan MiróBeclouded Person
Joan MiróColophon page from Album 13
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso on Boulevard Pasteur Tangier 1961. Psilocybin Days. Arab & French Posters.
Allen GinsbergOne of the most beautiful stranger's faces I ever saw. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 24) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 16) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróLe Lézard aux plumes d'or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers)
Joan MiróFrontispiece from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (folio 25 verso) from À toute épreuve (Proof Against All)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (page 64) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróHeadpiece (colophon) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróTailpiece (page 58) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróFrontispiece from À toute épreuve (Proof Against All)
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky's clear inquiring eye in sunlight, Gregory Corso visiting our room, Tangier
Joan MiróUntitled
Joan MiróMoonbird
Joan MiróPlate (folio 29) from Le Lézard aux plumes d'or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers)
Joan MiróPlate (page 11) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróPlate (page 99) from Parler seul (Speaking Alone)
Joan MiróDouble page plate (between pages 28 and 29) from King Ubu (Ubu Roi)
Allen GinsbergI met Lance Hendrickson by accident Tangier 1961 & took his picture
Joan MiróVariant of plate (page 45) from Le Désespéranto (Desesperanto): Volume III from L'Antitête (The Anti-Head)
Joan MiróUntitled
Joan MiróIn-text plate (folio 18) from À toute épreuve (Proof Against All)
Joan MiróIn-text plate (folio 31) from À toute épreuve (Proof Against All)
Joan MiróPlate 7 from Album 13