Dorothy Norman (b. 1903-), Philadelphia, libertarian editor, author intimate of Nehru, Indira Gandhi often stayed in her house on East 70th Manhattan, I met Martin Luther King in this same room, Companion of Alfred Stieglitz who photographed her form so many times her hands, her own photographs of him are seen in several books. I used to visit here, eat cookies & drinks tea, several times a year. Still Alive 1995!
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subject_titleLois Snyder Hennessy in her living-room Grass Valley California, her son the Poet Gary Snyder found her a house in town near his Sierra Mountains homestead, we visited together, her 82'nd year, Robert Frank liked this snapshot.
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subject_titleLouise 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.
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subject_titleJohn 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”.
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subject_titleJack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, Lower East Side. Gregory Corso was with him, he looked just like his late Father (described in _The Town and the City_ his first novel) - corpulent red faced W. C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. psychedelic I'd brought back from Timothy Leary's Millbrook Commune, Fall 1964.
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subject_titleHarry Smith returned to visit my house, his old room behind him, about a year after he’d migrated upstate to Cooperstown with two dozen boxes of his paintings, books and several hundred hours of tapes he’d made on my Sony Pro Walkman of the ambient sounds of lower Manhattan (climaxing July 4, 1985) – microphone wrapped in towel on windowsill sucking in dog barks & auto horns from the battery to lower East Side for months. Now it is August 30th, 1986.
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subject_titleDr. 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.
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subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published _Junkie_ propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.
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subject_titlePaul Bowles in bed with Christmas presents brought by biographer Virginia Carr of Atlanta, his apartment Immeuble Itesa Tangier, several days before his 83'd birthday at month's end. December 24, 1993 xmas day.
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subject_titleJuanita Lieberman had met Peter Orlovsky at Naropa in early 1980's, was now working in my house as secretary March 3, 1985 - went on to nice job publishing at Paragon House, signed up Carl Solomon's Emergency Messages.
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subject_titleAnne Waldman orator poet co-director of Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, Boulder Colorado, discussing a love affair over table at T'ai Chi teacher Jane Faigao's house, Robert Frank's _The Americans_ under her wrist, August 15, 1985.
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subject_titleDmitri 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.
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subject_titleHerbert E. Huncke, author _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, who introduced "hip" vocabulary & attitudes to writers later labeled "Beat", his room Hotel Elite, N.E. corner 8th Avenue and 51'st street diagonally opposite Madison Square Garden. Rare glimpse of Huncke, then hustling bread on Times Square, strung-out - he fixed at the sink. Saw him infrequently that season, though we'd known each other well since 1945, found his room to say good bye, leaving New York to hitch south, Mexico and Bay area, here just before Christmas, Manhattan 1953.
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