Allen GinsbergNicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.Allen GinsbergNicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Enrico's Cafe Broadway San Francisco March 16, 1985.
Allen GinsbergRichard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York
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.
Allen GinsbergMy father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet Armchair, last year of his life 1976. See "Don't Grow Old."
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky's clear inquiring eye in sunlight, Gregory Corso visiting our room, Tangier
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky in his mother's house
Allen GinsbergHarry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident alchemist- philosopher at the Kerouac Poetics school for several years till his last trip back to Manhattan to receive Obie award for life - long preservation of American Folk Music, and death soon after in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel.
Allen GinsbergMiles Forst in Robert Frank's house, New York
Allen GinsbergNeal Cassady and Al Hinckle playing chess, San Jose 1955 (or Gough Street) (S.F.) -- both brakemen on S.P. Railroad.
Allen GinsbergRobert 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
Allen GinsbergVictor Hernandez Cruz & friends at banquet ceremony for American Book Awards by Before Columbus Foundation at Miami Book Fair International, November 17, 1990.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso embraced by intimate friend, The Bistro, Jane & W. 4th Street, December 21, 1992.
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.
Allen GinsbergLouis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.
Allen GinsbergShig Murao & Dick McBride, Trieste Coffeeshop Grant Street, San Francisco March 16, 1985—Dick visiting from England.
Allen GinsbergOlga Rudge at Ezra Pound Centenary Conference, U. of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1985. We'd met with Pound in Rapallo & Venice 1967.
Allen GinsbergBill Wyman
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Allen GinsbergLucien Carr, New York City, March 3, 1985
Allen Ginsberg“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.
Allen GinsbergLarry Rivers with his portrait of poet John Ashbery’s poem “Pyrography” (1977), his studio Southhampton L. I. July 7, 1985. He worked out with weightlift instructor too that day, as well as new styrofoam 3-D painting.
Allen GinsbergMidsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.
Allen GinsbergTrieste Coffeeshop Corner Gang March 16, 1985 including Kaye MacDonough next to Jack Micheline, Nile held by Gregory Corso in front of Neeli Cherkovski and his house mate Jesse Cabrera.
Allen GinsbergR.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.
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.
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_....
Allen GinsbergWM. Burroughs, loft window 33 Greene Street New York, December 16, 1986.
Allen GinsbergCreeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.
Allen GinsbergJuanita Lieberman had met Peter Orlovsky at Naropa in early 1980's, was now working in my house as secretary March 3, 1985 - went on to nice job publishing at Paragon House, signed up Carl Solomon's Emergency Messages.
Allen GinsbergWilliam 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.
Allen GinsbergForeign Language Department building, Baoding University, two hours train south of Beijing, November 1984, students at the door—down the avenue past an athletic field is entrance-gate to campus. I taught Whitman, W.C. Williams, Kerouac, Burroughs and Gregory Corso’s writing to eager provincial students for three weeks, and sang lyrics by William Blake.
Allen GinsbergFriend Robert Merims early 1950s
Allen GinsbergWillem De Kooning in his studio Springs Long Island. I visited with my stepmother, Edith, his fly unbuttoned, he showed me his brushes lined up neatly on a table, "I wash them, clean them all myself," and said of his new canvases, "I'm just a sign painter."
Allen GinsbergA modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961
Allen GinsbergKay MacDonough, Nile, & Gregory Corso March 16, 1985 San Francisco Front of Trieste Morning Hangout Coffeeshop Grant Street.
Allen GinsbergNeal Cassady New York 1964 on visit with Ken Kesey's bus.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.
Allen GinsbergI met Lance Hendrickson by accident Tangier 1961 & took his picture
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 GinsbergOut my New York kitchen window December 3, 1987, bare leaves, year end.
Allen GinsbergFormal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Playwright Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chairman/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from local writers—November 19, 1985.
Allen GinsbergAt foot of Uluru Ayers Rock, Circumambulation March 24, 1971
Allen GinsbergCarrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.
Allen GinsbergRichard Baker Roshi whose teacher was Suzuki Roshi soon after he stepped down as Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center to found Santa Fé, N.M. & Crestone Colorado Zen Meditation Centers, and give transmission to Philip Whalen, Sensei. Here visiting apartment on East 12’th Street after return from East Europe where he’d taught zen sitting groups, we caught up on our samsaric adventures. Baker Roshi had hosted 1965 U.C. Berkeley Poets’ convocation, we’d remained friends, especially thru his kindness to poet Whalen whom he’d invited to S.F. Zen. Center. N.Y. Fall 1984.
Allen GinsbergBill Burroughs with camera in his room Villa Muniria Tangier 1961. His writing desk.
Allen GinsbergAlene Lee, her friend Jack Kerouac, time of "The Subterraneans," friend Bob Merims in shadow, my apartment East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergOld-timer & survivor Herbert E. Huncke, Beat literary pioneer who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & myself to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945. From ’48 on he penned several remarkable volumes especially the classic _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, autobiographic anecdotal tales (Cherry Valley, 1970). Here age 78 in basement apartment backyard East 7th Street near Avenue C, Lower East Side New York. — May 18, 1993.