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.
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subject_titleRichard 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.
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subject_titleLouis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.
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subject_titleRene 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.
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subject_titlePublisher-hero Barney Rossett whose Grove Press legal battles liberated U.S. literature & film — at Tower Books’ N.Y. symposium on new 90’s Censorship Politics, June 20, 1991.
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subject_titleFrancesco Clemente looking over hand-script album with new poem I’d written out for his Blake-inspired watercolor illuminations, we’d done two books before; entrance corner of his loft overlooking Great Jones Street Manhattan, October 1984. He liked this picture.
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subject_titleBill Reck in his coldwater flat Lower East Side circa 1953, one of eminent Subterraneans (Vide Frity Nichols); he entered J.K.'s Book of Dreams as Dick Beck. outside his window off Bowery and East 2'd Street, a cemetery, he wrote "Love is a lime green tree," last line of poem looking out
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subject_titleHarry Smith exhausted 3 A.M. over Chinese take-out supper. Car had backed into him up on 12th Street corner Avenue A weeks earlier, compression-fractured his knee, so he stayed with me nine months in small room behind him he’d fixed with door-latch and lock. Old postcard of Manhattan Island on toilet door panel to his right. Ethnomusicologic archivist, film-maker, alchemist, he’d designed my new _Collected Poems_ book cover, he’d been moved out of hotel room on 28’th Street, lived in Bowery shelters, was now homeless in New York! June 17, 1985.
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subject_titleLafcadio Orlovsky, with sister Marie. I went to Park Lake Rest Home Ronkonkoma L.I. where he’d been sheltered & sedated the last few years, silent - till Catholic Charities arranged for Day-Care thrice weekly, he woke a bit & began crayon drawing again, phoned me & asked me to visit with Marie after 2 years absence. “Can I go home and live with Marie?” We went to restaurant on highway nearby March 21, 1995.
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subject_titleRobert Frank at his kitchen table, Bleeker Street house, casual visit, November 8, 1988, New York City.
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subject_titleOld-timer & survivor Herbert E. Huncke, Beat literary pioneer who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & myself to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945. From ’48 on he penned several remarkable volumes especially the classic _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, autobiographic anecdotal tales (Cherry Valley, 1970). Here age 78 in basement apartment backyard East 7th Street near Avenue C, Lower East Side New York. — May 18, 1993.
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subject_titleFrancesco Clemente taking a break from painting my portrait in oil, his first from life model, here working on background of imaginary Afric head, his studio Broadway & Great Jones Street. We'd done several illuminated books together (notably _White Shroud_ 1984) & he'd published my Blake discourse "Your Reason & Blake's System" in his Palm-sized Hanuman Editions. Manhattan December 14, 1989.
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subject_titleRobert Creeley Maine Summer 1983 after Williams Congress Orono.
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subject_titleEllie Dorfman in her big breakfast room, holding up a Xerox copy of N.Y. Times _White Shroud Poem_, January 1985. _Elsa's House Book_ photos fixed many Cambridge Poetry visitors.
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subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs interviewed for _Heavy Petting_ film memoir of youthful erotic initiations, his secretary James Grauerholz leaning forward observing discussion of sex world 1930 – 40s, final movie version cut out Bill’s queer loves. Obie Benz’s Soho loft, New York, December 21, 1986.
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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_creditlineRobert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
subject_titleEllis Reed, Sr., East Orange, New Jersey
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subject_titleFamily 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.
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subject_titleCharles Olson, the President, Vancouver Poetry Conference 1963, we stayed in Warren Tallman's house -- here the kitchen.
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