Аллен ГинзбергInquisitive 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 -Аллен ГинзбергInquisitive 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 -
Аллен ГинзбергJohn 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.
Аллен ГинзбергRene 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.
Аллен ГинзбергKhyentse Dilgo Rinpoche, one of Chögyam Trungpa's root teacher, at Marpa House reception for Naropa Instructors, Spring 1987. Sue Secoff + translator at right hand.
Аллен ГинзбергDmitri 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.
Аллен ГинзбергElsa 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.
Аллен ГинзбергJames Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.
Аллен ГинзбергKen 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.
Аллен ГинзбергDr. 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
Аллен ГинзбергKeith Haring visiting his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street September 23, 1989.
Аллен ГинзбергFoyer & 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.
Аллен ГинзбергCarl Solomon on Sunday 1983 Springtime, Bronx, we spent all afternoon, he caught 6 fish, I ate them.
Аллен ГинзбергI’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.
Аллен ГинзбергDr. 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.
Аллен ГинзбергKaye McDonough, Nile, and Gregory Corso, Trieste Coffeeshop front, Grant Street San Francisco March 16 or thereabouts 1985.
Аллен ГинзбергGelek 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.
Аллен ГинзбергFamily 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.
Аллен ГинзбергFrancesco Clemente at his opening Mary Boone Gallery March 30, 1985 -- I liked the portrait of the monster & asked him to stand next to it.
Аллен ГинзбергDr. 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.
Аллен ГинзбергCzeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.
Аллен ГинзбергA.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
Аллен ГинзбергWilliam Gaddis, novelist of "The Recognitions" at writing desk, Dostoyevsky House museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985
Аллен ГинзбергElizabeth F. Holmes, her living room Waldoboro Maine, I visited with Robert Creely who has house outside of town-- June 24, 1985.
Аллен ГинзбергJello 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.
Аллен ГинзбергPeter 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.
Аллен ГинзбергAmiri Baraka née Leroi Jones, American Poet, on Greensward picnic outside Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado August 5, 1985, sunny afternoon.
Аллен ГинзбергLarry 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
Аллен ГинзбергJohn 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”.
Аллен ГинзбергShe 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.
Аллен ГинзбергAnna & 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.
Аллен ГинзбергMichael Emerton Kansas City 5/30/91
Аллен ГинзбергLouise 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.
Аллен Гинзберг2/10/89 121 Wooster, Bowery Gallery, Rosebud & Lucien Carr
Аллен ГинзбергEllie 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.
Аллен ГинзбергGelek 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.
Аллен ГинзбергSandro 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.
Аллен ГинзбергPoet 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
Аллен ГинзбергAl Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.
Аллен ГинзбергIrving 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--
Аллен ГинзбергChaim and Renee Gross, October 1984 at Raphael Soyer's Cooper Union Exhibition, his portrait of them, the opening.
Аллен ГинзбергWilliam S. Burroughs, before entering car to airport, his departure from Naropa that summer July 27, 1985, Parking lot behind Varsity Townhouses, Boulder Colorado.
Аллен ГинзбергAllen Ginsberg Gregory Corso William Seward Burroughs, Garden Party July 29, 1985 Naropa Institute. Camera in Ted Morgan's hands
Аллен ГинзбергFather Pierre Riches and Peter Hale New York December 4, 1992
Аллен ГинзбергPatrick Warner, Northampton student, in basement of Ellie Dorfman's house, Cambridge Mass. January 1985, desk lamp reflected in his eyes.
Аллен ГинзбергMary 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.
Аллен ГинзбергWilliam 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.
Аллен ГинзбергGathering 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.
Аллен ГинзбергGary 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.