Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac’s Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “Court Painter” Robert La Vigne & poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Books shop, Broadway & Columbus Avenue North Beach. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with Jack K., Neal looks good in tee shirt, Howl first printing hadn’t arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco spring 1956.
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subject_titlePeter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (_Desolation Angels_) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
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subject_titleJerry 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.
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subject_titleWilliam Seward Burroughs and Alan Ansen, two elegant gentlemen at entrance to defunct San Remo Café , N.W. corner Bleeker looking north up MacDougal Street, then the heart of Greenwich Village. Before vogue of the Cedar Bar, poets painters Kerouac's "subterraneans" Gregory Corso Carl Solomon myself Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers Maxwell Bodenheim drunk even Dylan Thomas ate drank and talked till 3 AM at this central café - superb inexpensive veal parmigiana and spaghetti a la vongole in rear restaurant, wooden tables - At that season W.S.B.'d published _Junkie_ and we were assembling _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_, Burroughs improvising earliest routines for _Naked Lunch_. Alan Ansen had been Polymath secretary to W.H. Auden a decade before, helping type "_Age of Anxiety_." One mid-afternoon, Fall 1953, fixed with trembling hand.
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