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.
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subject_titlePoet Philip Whalen, Jerry Heiserman (later Hassan, Sufi) & student Thomas Jackrell (who'd writ interesting document-poem on Campbell's Soup) en route thru Portland Oregon returning from Vancouver Poetry Conference (with Olson Creeley Duncan Levertov) back to Bay Area, July 1963. Jackrell had a camper truck, we stopped to visit Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College, drink Buttermilk downtown.
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