Allen GinsbergPaul Bowles in bed with Christmas presents brought by biographer Virginia Carr of Atlanta, his apartment Immeuble Itesa Tangier, several days before his 83'd birthday at month's end. December 24, 1993 xmas day.Allen GinsbergPaul Bowles in bed with Christmas presents brought by biographer Virginia Carr of Atlanta, his apartment Immeuble Itesa Tangier, several days before his 83'd birthday at month's end. December 24, 1993 xmas day.
Allen GinsbergLita Hornick in her dining room, dessert for our lunch, Richard Boseman’s “The Norseman” on her north wall, we thought to visit Franz Klein exhibit at Whitney Museum a few blocks from her Park Avenue apartment. Writer, critic, excellent art & poetry patron. February 2, 1995.
Allen GinsbergLou Reed, poet-musician (hero to avant-guard Czechoslovak intellectual rock-band dissident "Plastic People of the Universe" defended from government persecution by playwright Vaclav Havel and his Charter 77 friends) at make-up table in green room, public Theater Lafayette Street New York, invited by impresario Rose Lesniak (above) to Master Ceremonies, Premiere of Poetry- Music Video Clips by Anne Waldman ("uh! oh! plutonium") and myself ("Father Death Blues"), September 1984.
Allen GinsbergI’d asked Robert Frank if he’d make back-jacket photo for _Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-'92_, we crossed Avenue from his old brick house on Bleeker to leafy empty lot stormfenced near CBGB’s Bowery grunge-rock mecca, he snapped lively Portrait, my Leica M6 strapped on Bike carry-rack, we changed places, I saw his familiar face, September 5, 1993.
Allen GinsbergLafcadio & Peter Orlovsky at kitchen table, Peter's apartment 5 Turner Terrace, a veteran's housing Project near a gigantic gas tank on Potrero Hill. 23 year old Peter brought Lafcadio, age 15, to Bay Area to stay with us, relieve his mother Kate in Northport, L.I., where Lafcadio knew Kerouac, and had visions of becoming a millionaire (and building a private space-ship to get off Nuked Planet Earth to another world) by answering dozens & dozens of get-rich-quick home-sales ads ("Earn $800.00 a day selling special Fish-bait oil by Telephone!") in pulp magazines' back pages. next Laf quit Jr. High School to bicycle downtown S.F. for dishwashing job--"One of the best periods of his life, getting his first whiff of work, money, independence, he was sparking up, got three social security cards, the F.B.I. came round to investigate" . . .
Allen GinsbergJohn Wieners for me among top ten American poets visiting my room Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. We'd met 3 decades earlier at Cedar Bar, N.Y.-- Robert Creeley & Frank O'Hara both admired / his gifts then, _Hotel Wentley Poems_ were published 1958 - - but none of his books were in print at the time of this visit February 1, 1985. Since then Raymond Foye edited 2 volumes-- all Wieners' Poetry -- For Black Sparrow Press.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky age 21 with our first car, old delivery truck "The Hearse," Telegraph Hill a block up from our apartment rooms 1010 Montgomery Street near Broadway Corner. We drove to Yosemite, the car cost $125. San Francisco 1955.
Allen GinsbergRene Ricard, outrageous faggot art critic, author _God with Revolver_ poems, visiting my apartment from his across the hall, same building E. 12 Street (his windows opposite my kitchen window here across courtyard). Two years later fire drove him out on the street hallucinating murder basements. July 29, 1986.
Allen GinsbergJoanne Kyger, poet, & her husband Gary Snyder holding umbrella, with priest from local temple connected with Gary's Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, home base for his Zen studies - we stayed over, wrote haikus in priest's family memento book, Joanne collected shiny pebbles, rainy day Sea of Japan, July 1963.
Allen GinsbergLouis Ginsberg in our house 416 East 34th Street Paterson, late 1950's?
Allen GinsbergGary Snyder 1965 Northwest
Allen GinsbergKen Kesey—Merry Pranksters’ day-glo painted “Further” cross-country bus Neal Cassady’d driven S.F. to Manhattan, L.S.D. cool-aid pitcher in icebox for local hitchhikers and Police, here stopped for gas lunch upstate on trip to Timothy Leary’s Millbrook n.y. psychedelic research commune just before election time, “A Vote For Barry Is A Vote for Fun” logo painted large across bustop side, Goldwater the libertarian Republican would-be Presidential candidate Hawk during Vietnam War, summer 1964.
Allen GinsbergHarry Smith, Film-maker, folklore archivist, ethnomusicologist, hermetic painter, alchemist & Bishop of O.T.O. erasing some note in his calendar, Packing boxes of books and rare phonograph records in his room prior to departure from Hotel Breslin 28th St. & Broadway where he lived several years. Some boxes were stored in basement of Film-Maker's Archive, some at my apartment. January 12, 1985.
Allen GinsbergSea of Japan, returning after year and half in India, six-week stopover in Japan travelling with Gary Snyder & wife Joanne Kyger, we supped at Zen Temple nearby, Snyder snorkelled, my Kodak Retina probably in Joanne’s hands, early July 1963.
Allen GinsbergHerbert E. Huncke age 69 retired from the street on methadone program, head tilted wise-eyed for wry conversation, about to say something charming, flattering or honest at the kitchen table New York March 1984.
Allen GinsbergKay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window / the past behind me…” _Marriage_, 1958.
Allen GinsbergJello Biafra (nee Eric Boucher) head of _Dead Kennedys_ rock band, visiting New York after obscenity trial (won by hung jury) over art illustrations to his "Frankenchrist" album. "Nazi Punks Fuck Off," "Too Drunk to Fuck," and "White Punks on Dope" were early underground hits late 1970's. He was on tour, lecturing on Reagan-era censorship moves, here "rebounding from the want-ads, surprised scrutinized by Candid surveillance camera," his briefcase open in small bedroom, pens clipped to strap, old backstage tour passes posted inside. Recovering from flu, late night tea, October 6, 1987.
Allen GinsbergSandro Chia, his apartment-studio on West 20's in New York, Julian Schnabel's crockery portrait of him hung on wall, his shotgun on display - he'd been out target-practicing with W. S. Burroughs at Chia's house in Rhinebeck a weel before, had begun working with a text by Gregory Corso that season, April 1985.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso Paris 1957 his attic 9 Rue-Gît-Le-Coeur with magic wand, Louvre postcards tacked to wall left, wooden angel kid on wire right, window on courtyard. Burroughs came to live a flight below, Peter Orlovsky & I had window on street two floors down, room with two burner gas stove – LeRoi Jones (Yugen magazine) and Irving Rosenthal (Chicago Review) wrote us from U.S. for poems, Gregory had “Marriage” ready, “Power,” “Army” & “Police” also. I began _Kaddish_, Peter “Frist Poem,” Burroughs shaping _Naked Lunch_. Madame Rachou, Concierge.
Allen GinsbergAmiri Baraka née Leroi Jones, American Poet, on Greensward picnic outside Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado August 5, 1985, sunny afternoon.
Allen GinsbergIrving Rosenthal, Burroughs' _Naked Lunch_ editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic _Sheeper_ (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--
Allen GinsbergLarry Rivers with his portrait of John Ashbery's poem "Pyrography" 1977, his studio Southhampton, L.I. He worked out with weight-lift instructor that afternoon, as well as cut forms for 3-D styrofoam-paint-canvas construction, July 7, 1985
Allen GinsbergRobert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in _Desolation Angels_, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.
Allen GinsbergGelek Rimpoche working hard to ferry a few students across the waters after outing on lake-front bathing shore, late-summer Jewel Heart retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan August 27, 1993.
Allen GinsbergPeter O. sleeping in our small room Tangier 1961. Did "Sex Experiments" there.
Allen GinsbergBill Burroughs was in love, you can see the pain in his eyes, the longing. Assembling _Queer_ mss. 1953. 206 E 7 St N.Y.C., 1953
Allen GinsbergBob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac’s Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “Court Painter” Robert La Vigne & poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Books shop, Broadway & Columbus Avenue North Beach. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with Jack K., Neal looks good in tee shirt, Howl first printing hadn’t arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco spring 1956.
Allen GinsbergLois Snyder Hennessy in her living-room Grass Valley California, her son the Poet Gary Snyder found her a house in town near his Sierra Mountains homestead, we visited together, her 82'nd year, Robert Frank liked this snapshot.
Allen GinsbergBill must've said something funny from the floor, we were taking snapshots of each other on same couch, my $13.00 Kodak Retina pawn-shop camera in Burroughs' hands. He stayed in the apartment East 7th Street between Avenues B & C most of that Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky & Robert Frank parked across from my apartment door, his truck --he had stopped by to visit. I brought down my Leica & Fuji cameras & film for him to take my photo for back cover _Selected Poems_. Peter came by. They hadn't seen each other in nine months Peter said. East 12th street, June 11, 1996.
Allen GinsbergPoet Dafydd Rowlands above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' boat-house, we'd drive back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition, met Bardic Chair-holders Dic Jones, & we returned to Swansea Poetry festival where I'd stayed nearly a week, April 8, 1995
Allen GinsbergDr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico anti-psychiatry radical, at difficult time, considerable drinking, household & marriage breaking up, here in his residence office-study, Hampstead, London, April 25, 1985.
Allen GinsbergGary Snyder Poet, scissors to beard 1965.
Allen GinsbergKaye McDonough, Nile, and Gregory Corso, Trieste Coffeeshop front, Grant Street San Francisco March 16 or thereabouts 1985.
Allen GinsbergDmitri Prigoff and Bella Akhmadulina in her husband Boris Mesuref's studio, Vorovsky Street Moscow -- I found their apartment, she introduced me to Prigoff as outstanding avant-guard experimental Poet- late November 1985. Two years later I read Prigoff's English Translations for him at an art gallery in Manhattan.
Allen GinsbergJohn Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.
Allen GinsbergWade Walton’s barbershop, Clarksdale, Mississippi—Walton an old blues musician, Harry Smith came to record rhythmic clicking of his barber scissors, April 19, 1987
Allen GinsbergRob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.
Allen GinsbergDr. R. D. Laing, his residence office study, Poet Tom Pickard in chair, Hampstead, London April 25, 1985.
Allen GinsbergInquisitive girl, I bowed down to say hello, a moment on sidewalk early summer, East 10 St between First and Avenue A, Lower E. Side N.Y. June 22, 1993 -
Allen GinsbergJoanne Kyger (Snyder) & Gary Snyder Poet-Zen students, their little house, Nishi-Noyama-Cho, Kita-ku-Murasaki-No area of Kyoto, June 1963
Allen GinsbergBasil Bunting Summer 1973, we went from Bede's grave Durham Cathedral to a Northumbrian Churchyard where he preferred to be buried in time.
Allen GinsbergAl Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.
Allen GinsbergHugh MacDiarmid on his 81’st Birthday at home. Scotland 1973.
Allen GinsbergKhyentse Dilgo Rinpoche, one of Chögyam Trungpa's root teacher, at Marpa House reception for Naropa Instructors, Spring 1987. Sue Secoff + translator at right hand.
Allen GinsbergChaim and Renee Gross, October 1984 at Raphael Soyer's Cooper Union Exhibition, his portrait of them, the opening.
Allen GinsbergWm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.
Allen GinsbergNeal Cassady with cigarette young & vigorous age 29 with salesman surveying North Beach used car lot, he needed new wheels. Bay Area Johnny Appleseed of pot from early 1950’s, he worked as conductor on Southern Pacific Railroad, averted train crash as brakeman years earlier, breaking his ankle, collected insurance, bought his family a ranch-house in Los Gatos down the peninsula, gambled madly & disastrously at horse racetrack, wrote painfully in pencil on his “The First Third” autobiographical manuscript, visited me overnight in rooms on Polk and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco, sometime March 1955.