Kitchen by Lamplight

Old Woman Reading

1800 - 1833 · Museu Estatal de Amesterdão

Vincent van Gogh

Self-portrait, 1887

Claude Monet

La Corniche bij Monaco, 1884

Rembrandt van Rijn

A Ronda Nocturna, 1642

Rembrandt van Rijn

Portrait of a Woman, Probably Maria Trip (1619-1683), 1639

Rembrandt van Rijn

Ponte de Pedra, c. 1638

Rembrandt van Rijn

Man in Oriental Dress, 1635

Rembrandt van Rijn

Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg, 1634

Rembrandt van Rijn

Jonge vrouw in gefantaseerde kleding, 1633

Allen Ginsberg

Peter Orlovsky in his mother's house, 1964, printed later

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Allen Ginsberg

Richard 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., 1984, printed 1994

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Father Pierre Riches at kitchen table December 4, 1992, 1992

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Herbert 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., 1984

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Jello 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., 1987

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Rene 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., 1986, printed 1991

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Ray Bremser, Jazz-bar sound-poetry genius, syncopating wow-sound word- / walloper, original N.Y. late-1950's Coffeshop bard with Kerouac & LeRoi Jones, his long-ago jail songs were noted by Bob Dylan in _The Times They are a Changin'_; at kitchen table March 15, 1987, he stayed over to read Poetry and teach my "Literary History of Beat Generation" Class Brooklyn College, come down from A.A. halfway house in Utica N.Y., rare trip to the Apple for survivor w/ big fine beard., 1987

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Kitchen window later afternoon January 23, 1987, snow melted on the sill, I never met Bill Rizzo., 1987

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