Allen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs, before entering car to airport, his departure from Naropa that summer July 27, 1985, Parking lot behind Varsity Townhouses, Boulder Colorado.Allen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs, before entering car to airport, his departure from Naropa that summer July 27, 1985, Parking lot behind Varsity Townhouses, Boulder Colorado.
Allen GinsbergShe looked homeless and vivid sitting on the steps of the clinic or Library on 2'nd Avenue as I passed her walking to Gem Spa sometime October 1984.
Allen GinsbergFather Pierre Riches and Peter Hale New York December 4, 1992
Allen GinsbergDr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical therapist, his office study in Hampstead, difficult period drinking considerably, longtime marriage & household break-up, London April 25, 1985.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky by pond C.O.P. Farm Cherry Valley
Allen GinsbergJack 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.
Allen GinsbergDr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987
Allen GinsbergA.G. & Neeli Cherkovski kneeling, Neeli's Doctor boyfriend above his left shoulder, Jack Micheline's right eye, Kaye McDonough, Nile & Gregory Corso and friends from Trieste Coffeeshop March 16 or thereabouts 1985, Jesse Cabrera rear right
Allen GinsbergEllie Dorfman waiting for me to get ready to go out on the town, late March weekend, front room of my Lower East side apartment, 1987. Visiting down from Cambridge.
Allen GinsbergGathering at Henry Geldzahler's West 9th street backyard patio the afternoon of Francesco Clemente's double vernissage Mary Boone/Leo Castelli Galleries,-- John Giorno Poet, Geldzahler art critic curator self Clemente Naples born painter William Burroughs novelist-painter arm round shoulder of old friend poet secretary Alan Ansen (who'd typed mss. of _Naked Lunch_ in Tangier a quarter Century earlier); behind them James Grauerholz, Burroughs' secretary & his boyfriend at the time Ira Silverberg peeking over Burroughs' left shoulder, March 30, 1985 Manhattan-- my Rolleiflex in Raymond Foye's hands.
Allen GinsbergGary Snyder and then-wife Masa Uehara after supper in the Kerosene-lit farmhouse kitchen at “Kitkitdizze” on San Juan Ridge, a Japanese style tile-roofed dwelling in park-like oak and Ponderosa pine woods 3000 feet up on Western slope of California Sierra Mountains, May 30, 1988.
Allen GinsbergCarl Solomon on Sunday 1983 Springtime, Bronx, we spent all afternoon, he caught 6 fish, I ate them.
Allen GinsbergI couldn't get over his beauty, he allowed me to photograph him thus. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier 1961, was hitchhiking thru.
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg Gregory Corso William Seward Burroughs, Garden Party July 29, 1985 Naropa Institute. Camera in Ted Morgan's hands
Allen GinsbergJames Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tangier, 1957. Third man- Paul Lund.
Allen GinsbergWilliam 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.
Allen GinsbergCzeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso musing on cot in room Peter Orlovsky & I shared in Tangier 1961 - we interviewed each other and Burroughs for first issue of City Lights Journal for Protection of All Beings, lots of talk.
Allen Ginsberg2/10/89 121 Wooster, Bowery Gallery, Rosebud & Lucien Carr
Allen GinsbergWilliam Gaddis, novelist of "The Recognitions" at writing desk, Dostoyevsky House museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985
Allen GinsbergGelek Rimpoche, meeting him first time in Ann Arbor, benefit-concert reception in hotel for Philip Glass & myself, met Sangha & local dignitaries, November 13, 1989 Probably.
Allen GinsbergA.G. & P.O. 5 Turner Terrace, Potrero Hill Housing Project, Peter's kitchen, hot summer day 1956.
Allen GinsbergWedding party, New York Municipal Building Marriage Chambers, waiting room-- second row Simon Pettet poet bridegroom, eternal flower child Rosebud Feliu bride, her son Harley Flanagan of Cro-Mags and his friend Manon Brière, maid of honor with glasses; front row Luc Sante essayist, Maria Saavedra and her fiancé best man Steven Taylor, mid-day, August 1984.
Allen GinsbergElsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.
Allen GinsbergFrancesco Clemente at his opening Mary Boone Gallery March 30, 1985 -- I liked the portrait of the monster & asked him to stand next to it.
Allen GinsbergKodak-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.
Allen GinsbergMichael Emerton Kansas City 5/30/91
Allen GinsbergKen Kesey midnight -- lamp'd at Hotel Excelsior w. 81st St. Manhattan, he'd performed his Bear-myth Cantata at Lincoln Center, brief visit to N.Y., his son recently perished in athlete tour-bus crash Northwest. December 14, 1989.
Allen GinsbergLouise Nevelson at Park Avenue millionaire Patron’s apartment brunch gathering during Jewish Book Fair. I’d not met her before, she transported me to her Mott Street building in a stretch limousine provided by her hosts, showed me her combine-sculpture studio, gave me an autobiographic volume signed, I never saw her again, November 9, 1986.
Allen GinsbergNeal 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.
Allen GinsbergKeith Haring visiting his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street September 23, 1989.
Allen GinsbergMiguel Grinberg, Eco Contemporáneo editor, Buenos Aires, Havana Cuba before I got deported January 1965
Allen GinsbergJerry Heiserman (later Sufi "Hassan"), the car whose? Dan McCloud (later editor of _Georgia Strait_ under-ground paper), Allen Ginsberg, Bobbie Louise Hawkins Creeley, Professor Warren Tallman our host, Robert Creeley above big Charles Olson. Seated below left, Thomas Jackrell (student poet who wrote about Campbell’s Soup Cans), Philip Whalen poet, and postmodern poetics editor Don Allen- in front of Tallman's house- he'd sent me ticket to return round world after year-and-half in India for Vancouver B.C. Canada University Poetry Conference, last days of July 1963.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, behind him shades of Ian Summerville, Cambridge mathematics student, Bill’s cut-up tech assistant, and Michael Portman, eighteen-year-old Public School aristocrat admirer of _Naked Lunch_, the two staying in rooms adjacent to Bill’s, both early deceased — here under the wall of Bill’s garden. All took cameras out beneath blue sky, bright sunny day, Villa Muniria, Tangier August 1961.
Allen GinsbergAlan Ansen visiting from Greece, William Burroughs leaned forward menacing-visaged, Henry Geldzahler's apt. 9th Street N.Y.C. March 30, 1985. Gathering before Francesco Clemente's vernissage.
Allen GinsbergFamily house living room wall, went with Poet Doctor Fernando Silva & 82 year old Modernist Poundian & Dario expert Jose Coronel Urtecho & Crowd of Sandinesta Poets for Annual Ruben Dario Festival visit to Grenada home of one of the poets to listen to sound- Poetry tapes visit Countryside & eat- mementos on wall, family photos, diplomas, votive medals & Christ figurines, local dolls & Virgins, fans & purses mementos of Abuela Grandma-- Grenada, Nicaragua January 26, 1986-- Beltran Morales' home.
Allen GinsbergJack 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
Allen GinsbergAnna & George Condo before center of large canvas, "Adoration of St. Lucy" nailed to wall of his studio then in large townhouse East 64th Street Manhattan, first time I visited them, January 15, 1993.
Allen GinsbergWilliam 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.
Allen GinsbergPatrick Warner, Northampton student, in basement of Ellie Dorfman's house, Cambridge Mass. January 1985, desk lamp reflected in his eyes.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso Paris 1957, looking out his skylight 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur. At this time he had completed Bomb and was "eliminating ""_Death_" & "_Clown_".
Allen GinsbergMary Help of Christians R.C. Church facade with cornice pigeons out my 4th floor living-room window, I'd lived in this apartment ten years then, still there, cheap rent-controlled 437 East 12th Street New York September 29, 1985.
Allen GinsbergWilliam Burroughs listening to new poetry-music tapes I'd made with Elvin Jones. We were staying in adjoining apartments at Varsity Townhouses, rented for the Summer session of Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. We'd come every year since 1974, along with Peter Orlovsky, & Gregory Corso as frequent visitor. Anne Waldman & I co-directed the Buddhist-oriented poetry section. July 1984.
Allen GinsbergPoet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.
Allen GinsbergMy 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.
Allen GinsbergFoyer & arcade at Entrance to Josef Stalin Birthplace Museum, Gori, Georgia Soviet Union-- truck drivers on the road to nearby Vani & Tbilisi still had Stalin-face stickers on their windshields. Outside Lendava marble shelter at the wooden birth-house itself, small rooms low ceilings I remember. Not many people in the museum, first weeks of Glasnost, December 7, 1985.
Allen GinsbergElizabeth F. Holmes, her living room Waldoboro Maine, I visited with Robert Creely who has house outside of town-- June 24, 1985.