Stati Uniti, Ebrei · 1926–1997
Allen Ginsberg
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Louis Ginsberg in our house 416 East 34th Street Paterson, late 1950's?
1950s, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair first back from Galveston-Dakar Doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the ship's fantail, smoking what? In New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947.
1947, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Neal Cassady driving his oldsmobile down Bayshore Highway, San Francisco to Los Gatos, circa 1954, I sat in the backseat, the car rocked with Rhythm & Blues Radio.; Self-Portrait in Darkroom of Associated Press Office, Rockefeller Center Manhattan, I was a copyboy on the night shift, 1948. A.G.; Street cornerman’s tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City: Jack Kerouac, myself in sombrero, Peter Orlovsky coat over shoulder, Gregory Corso kneeling with Lafcadio Orlovsky age 16, A.D. 1956. See Kerouac’s _Desolation Angels_ for account of this trip.
1948/1954/1956, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Carl 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.
1953, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Rebecca 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.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Louis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William 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.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Donald 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.
1953, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William Burroughs amusing himself with 1953's recent translation of St.-Jean Perse's _Vents_, living room floor 206 East 7th Street New York City, Fall '53.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Friend Robert Merims early 1950s
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
“Now Jack as I warned you far back as 1945, if you keep going home to live with your ‘Memère’ you’ll find yourself wound tighter and tighter in her apron strings till you’re an old man and can’t escape…” William Seward Burroughs camping as an André Gideian sophisticate lecturing the earnest Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac who listens soberly dead-pan to “the most intelligent man in America” for a funny second’s charade in my living room 206 East 7th Street Apt 16, Manhattan, one evening Fall 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Alene Lee, her friend Jack Kerouac, time of "The Subterraneans," friend Bob Merims in shadow, my apartment East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William 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.
1953, printed 1993 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William 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.
1953, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack 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.
1953, printed 1989 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
The 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.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published _Junkie_ propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill Reck in his coldwater flat Lower East Side circa 1953, one of eminent Subterraneans (Vide Frity Nichols); he entered J.K.'s Book of Dreams as Dick Beck. outside his window off Bowery and East 2'd Street, a cemetery, he wrote "Love is a lime green tree," last line of poem looking out
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Downtown Jacksonville's main street December 1953, Allen Ginsberg hitch-hiking to visit W.S. Burroughs' parents in Palm Beach, stopover to visit Bill's friend Marker, thence to Cuba, Yucatan & bus & train up to U.S. West Coast, meet Neal Cassady in San Francisco.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Helen Parker's boys Bruce & Tommy, circa 1953, Greenwich Village, she was my friend when I was in N.Y. Psychiatric Institute a few years earlier, now we'd go to Italian restaurants downstairs on MacDougal Street with Ramblin Jack Eliot.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter-Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with _The Subterraneans_, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.
1953, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William Seward Burroughs and Alan Ansen, two elegant gentlemen at entrance to defunct San Remo Café , N.W. corner Bleeker looking north up MacDougal Street, then the heart of Greenwich Village. Before vogue of the Cedar Bar, poets painters Kerouac's "subterraneans" Gregory Corso Carl Solomon myself Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers Maxwell Bodenheim drunk even Dylan Thomas ate drank and talked till 3 AM at this central café - superb inexpensive veal parmigiana and spaghetti a la vongole in rear restaurant, wooden tables - At that season W.S.B.'d published _Junkie_ and we were assembling _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_, Burroughs improvising earliest routines for _Naked Lunch_. Alan Ansen had been Polymath secretary to W.H. Auden a decade before, helping type "_Age of Anxiety_." One mid-afternoon, Fall 1953, fixed with trembling hand.
1953, printed 1993 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William Burroughs on roof 206 E. 7 Street N.Y. 1953, with view of Tompkins Park
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
My brother Eugene Brooks, Lawyer, at his desk at Manning's Tire & Battery Service Used Car Sales, 125 Street & Amsterdam Avenue Manhattan. Jerome Brodsky Insurance Broker jack-in-box from adjoining cubicle. Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs fixing typescript of _Yage Letters_ at kitchen table 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket, couch-pillows airing on fire-escape three flights up overlooking backyard clotheslines south. He’d already published _The Town & the City_ and completed a treasury of half-dozen unprinted classic volumes including _On the Road_, _Visions of Cody_,_ Doctor Sax_, early books of Blues and Dreams, & had begun _The Subterraneans’_ adventurous love affair with Alene Lee, “Mardou Fox.” Alene typed for W. S. Burroughs then in residence editing Yage Letters and Queer mss., unpublishable that decade, censorship ruled. I scribed “The Green Automobile,” Gregory Corso visited that season, 206 East 7th Street near Tompkins Park, Manhattan, probably September 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac locked in Mortal Combat with Moroccan dagger versus broomstick clear on the couch—they had its hold still a full second which I steadied camera on back of chair. They’d known each other nine years by then. Jack came in from Richmond Hill he’d finished Maggie Cassady, Bill stayed with me in two room apartment consolidating Yage Letters, he’d sent over the year from Peru and Ecuador. 206 East 7th st. Apt 16 Manhattan, September-October 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill 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
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill 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.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Wm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Kodak-Retina snapshot by William Burroughs, living room 1953 Lower East Side, Jackson Mac Low portrait with recorder by Iris Brodey on wall. We were working on Bills S.A. letters. I had job on N.Y. World Telegram.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace Paperback Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder. Japanese kite against old hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of Yage Letters and Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter-zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tangier in December. New York, Fall 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs beside typewriter on kitchen table, getting in condition to edit his South American "Yage Letters" and "Queer" epistolary mss. to be published decades afterward - immortality comes later! We slept in striped wallpaper'd tiny rear bedroom, my wooden wardrobe visible behind his shoulder. 206 East 7th Street, Apartment 16, Lower East Side Manhattan October 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
![Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953., Allen Ginsberg, 1953, printed later](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/eb9c79bf-860b-4bb2-9f54-063d71f4fab3/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac passing corner bar Avenue B & East 7th N.Y., we went out for a walk along Tompkins Park, September 1953
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry Wharf, we used to wander docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & thru truck parking lots along East River singing rawbone Blues, Leadbelly’s “Black Girl” or “Eli Eli,” chanting Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s “O Harp & Altar of the Fury fused!” or “Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above. Time of his _Doctor Sax_ & _The Subterraneans_, Burroughs was in town, up from Mexico, New York, Fall 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness alterations in Literature & American Heart Land, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jack’s _The Subterraneans_ records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d sent from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee (“Mardou Fox” of _The Subterraneans_) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish & Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like “Leshkos” corner 7th & A, rent was only ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of “The Green Automobile” poem to Cassady, Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs sitting up in back bedroom waiting for my company...
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Herbert E. Huncke, author _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, who introduced "hip" vocabulary & attitudes to writers later labeled "Beat", his room Hotel Elite, N.E. corner 8th Avenue and 51'st street diagonally opposite Madison Square Garden. Rare glimpse of Huncke, then hustling bread on Times Square, strung-out - he fixed at the sink. Saw him infrequently that season, though we'd known each other well since 1945, found his room to say good bye, leaving New York to hitch south, Mexico and Bay area, here just before Christmas, Manhattan 1953.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Lucien Carr, his apartment above Sheridan Square, working then for U.P.I.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Eugene Brooks at Seder Table, Patterson, New Jersey E. 34th St. our house
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Carlo Crivelli’s green-hued Christ-face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skull — here Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan.
1953, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
“…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occurrence.” (See _Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties_ , N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954.
1954, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Mock machete battle with state agricultural advisor, American girl passing through watching, elder Antonio the family retainer & nephew, Finca Tacalapan de San Leandro a day’s travel by river & horseback from Salto de Agua Railroad stops into edge of Petén Rainforest to old family land of Karena Shields (first Jane in 30s Tarzan movies) who hosted me February thru May, we’d met at Palenque old Mayan ruins nearby, & lived in open thatchroof shelter, slept in Mosquito-netted hammocks, I wrote “Siesta in Xbalba”, Chiapas Mexico 1954.
1954, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Neal Cassady and Al Hinckle playing chess, San Jose 1955 (or Gough Street) (S.F.) -- both brakemen on S.P. Railroad.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in _Desolation Angels_, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote _Howl_ in this room, S.F. 1955
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter 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.
1955, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Fond 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.
c. 1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Natalie Jackson, San Francisco
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Polk & Sutter, “Polk Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955.
1955, printed 1994 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Henry Schlactner, Kerouac’s friend Al Sublette by Peter Orlovsky. Foster’s Cafeteria S.F. 1955. Me on right.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky in my room 1010 Montgomery Street looking tender and mad, hopeful & happy.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Al Sublette, & Peter Orlovsky as I first knew him 1955 S.F.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter 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.
1955, printed 1990 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Robert 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.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Neal 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.
1955, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Neal Cassady and his love of that year the star-cross’d Natalie Jackson conscious of their rôles in Market Street Eternity: Cassady had been prototype for Jack Kerouac’s 1950 _On the Road_ saga hero Dean Moriarty, as later in 1960’s he’d taken the driver’s wheel of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic-era day-glo painted Merry Prankster crosscountry bus “Further.” Neal’s illuminated American automobile mania, “unspeakably enthusiastic” friendship & erotic energy had already written his name in brightlit signs of our literary imaginations before movies were made imitating his charm. That’s why we stopped under the marquee to fix the passing hand on the watch, San Francisco, maybe March 1955.
1955, printed 1996 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
My front room 1010 Montgomery Street North Beach apartment wherein I wrote _Howl_ Part I, Peter Orlovsky's room down the hall past the kitchen in back, windows overlooking Telegraph Hill's roofs and Oakland Bay. Robert La Vigne's watercolor portrait of me in army-surplus jacket and Cézanne-like landscape pinned to wall above spittoon-shaped woven basket on mantel, fireplace lit. Bollinger books on shelf, letters and Essays of Ezra Pound under bed-table clock, checkered wool blanket hung over alley window first floor, black-painted bureau with victrola-case & Bach on top. "Blessed be the Muses / for their descent / dancing round my desk / Crowning my balding head / With laurel.” I was living on unemployment checks, San Francisco, Summer 1955.
1955, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Lafcadio, 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.
1956, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
All 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.
1956, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky age 23 on Ginny Lehrman's lawn Berkeley
1956, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bob 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.
1956, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Lafcadio & 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" . . .
1956, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
A.G. & P.O. 5 Turner Terrace, Potrero Hill Housing Project, Peter's kitchen, hot summer day 1956.
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Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in _Desolation Angels_ —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.
1956, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Wise-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_....
1957, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack 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.
1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory Corso, his attic room 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur, wooden angel hung from wall right, window looked on courtyard and across Seine halfblock away to spires of St. Chapelle on Ile St. Louis. Gregory’s _Gasoline_ was ready at City Lights, in attic he prepared “Marriage,” “Power,” “Army,” “Police,” “Hair” and “Bomb” for _Happy Birthday of Death book_. Henri Michaux visited, liked Corso’s “mad children of soda-caps” phrasing Burroughs came from Tanger to live one flight below, shaping _Naked Lunch_ manuscript, Peter Orlovsky and I had window on street two flights downstairs, room with two-burner gas stove, we ate together often, rent $30 a month. I’d begun Kaddish litany, Peter his “Frist Poem.”
1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...
c. 1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. _Naked Lunch_ letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' _Interzone_ word-hoard, his own _On the Road_ just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
1957, printed 1996 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory 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.
1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tangier, 1957. Third man- Paul Lund.
1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory Corso Paris 1957, looking out his skylight 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur. At this time he had completed Bomb and was "eliminating ""_Death_" & "_Clown_".
1957, printed 1984 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Jack Kerouac with Wm. Burroughs’ cat in garden Villa Muniria. Jack had place upstairs from Bill 2 flights, French windows with spacious red-tiled veranda overlooking Tangier Bay and Gibraltar distant, rent 40$ a month or less. 1957.
1957, printed 1991 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory Corso looking out his attic-room skylight 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur half block from Seine off Place St. Michel. He had finished first City Lights Gasoline, completed Marriage & Bomb, begun Power Poem, & was "eliminating" Death & Clown motifs (i.e. Probing Concepts), see Happy Birthday of Death volume 1960. Peter O & I lived downstairs 3rd floor, Paris 1957.
1957, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Dead creature, Xauen, Morocco 1957.
1957, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory Corso on Boulevard Pasteur Tangier 1961. Psilocybin Days. Arab & French Posters.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
One of the most beautiful stranger's faces I ever saw. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
I met Lance Hendrickson by accident Tangier 1961 & took his picture
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky's clear inquiring eye in sunlight, Gregory Corso visiting our room, Tangier
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill Burroughs with camera in his room Villa Muniria Tangier 1961. His writing desk.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter 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.
1961, printed 1989 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Gregory Corso - Tangier 1961 - Peter & my room -
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Lance 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.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter Orlovsky handsome before he left for Greece. Tangier 1961 The cement porch of our room over the bay.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926-) & Gregory Corso (b. 1930-), modest & immodest self-portraits, we weren't lovers but poets & jackanapes smiling and serious in turn, candid facing Kodak-Retina lens delayed-action snap, camera propped on chair other end of small white-washed room top-floor little Hotel Armor a block downhill Calle Cook from 1 Rue Magellan Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tangier, Morocco August 1961
1961, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
William S. Burroughs slightly zonked, his dooryard-garden wall Villa Muneria, looking at me suspiciously, "Who are you an Agent for?" He "traced back along word-lines," cut-up technique of anti-brainwash language analysis, inquiring sources of my mental conditioning, perhaps Liberal Professor Trilling, perhaps "a trust of giant insects from another Galaxy" conspiring to make Nova Conditions on our Planet, exterminate HomoSap the Human animal so another life-form, virus invasion, move in on the Turf, such like poetries on his mind. Timothy Leary visited from Harvard, we took small amount of psilocybin, Bill shut himself inside his garden gate with a wave of his hand, allergic, paranoia season. Peter Orlovsky departed alone, ship to Athens, Bill employed for Scandinavia L.S.O. Conference leaving Gregory Corso and myself waving him goodbye
1961, printed 1995 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Bill Burroughs "impersonating a detective with magnifying glass in hand ... Sherlock Holmes, or shabby Chinese detective in Saigon ... look at that stain on the suit." He took photos of sky, boys, streets, then photos of these photos, by stages drawing forth essences, re-photographing images of boy-stuff or blue sky, here collaged under glass plates on his bureau. Some cut-up photos from magazines, left. Calligraphy on Wardrobe closet Burroughs' adaptation of Brion Gysin's brushwork. Tangier Summer 1961. Bill's words above, 1988.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Paul Bowles preparing mint tea on our arrival at the market area souk center of the medina, we took train from Tangier, stayed a week in his travel friend Christopher Wanklyn's household, Marrakech, Morocco, July 20, 1961
1961, printed 1989 · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
Peter O. sleeping in our small room Tangier 1961. Did "Sex Experiments" there.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art
I couldn't get over his beauty, he allowed me to photograph him thus. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier 1961, was hitchhiking thru.
1961, printed later · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art