City Lights Bookstore visit—Philip Whalen poet Zen Sensei, anonymous eyeglassed onlooker, Amy and Michael McClure with shopowner poet-painter Laurence Ferlinghetti standing framed in door; below Nanao Sakaki Japonesia’s Bum-Academy longhair poet king, and John Montgomery kneeling beside him, Proud to be Characterized by Jack Kerouac 30 years earlier as a foolish mountaineer in _The Dharma Bums_. San Francisco, May 22, 1988.
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subject_titleCity Lights Bookstore visit—Philip Whalen poet Zen Sensei, anonymous eyeglassed onlooker, Amy and Michael McClure with shopowner poet-painter Laurence Ferlinghetti standing framed in door; below Nanao Sakaki Japonesia’s Bum-Academy longhair poet king, and John Montgomery kneeling beside him, Proud to be Characterized by Jack Kerouac 30 years earlier as a foolish mountaineer in _The Dharma Bums_. San Francisco, May 22, 1988.
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subject_titleBob 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_titleJesse Cabrera Lover & Neeli Cherkovski, Kaye MacDonough, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline & friends, plateglass of Trieste Coffeeshop Grant Street San Francisco March 16, 1985, Camera snapshot by Gregory Corso's finger.
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subject_titleTrieste Coffeeshop Corner Gang March 16, 1985 including Kaye MacDonough next to Jack Micheline, Nile held by Gregory Corso in front of Neeli Cherkovski and his house mate Jesse Cabrera.
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subject_titleGeorge and Edith Rickey with sons Stuart and Philip, East Chatham, New York
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subject_titleGathering 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.
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subject_titleRick McBride's glasses nose beard, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline, Trieste Cafe March 16, 1985, San Francisco, morning leisures.
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subject_titleDick McBride, returned from England where he'd been distributing City Lights Books, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline facing my shadow through the door of Cafe Trieste, Grant Street San Francisco, March 16, 1985.
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subject_titlePeter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen...visiting from Venezia to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier March-July 1961.
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subject_titlePeter 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_titleLucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard _Old Angel Midnight_ eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986.
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subject_creditlineGift of Jane P. Watkins
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subject_titleBill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!
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subject_titleJello 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.
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subject_titleAllen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Enrico's Cafe Broadway San Francisco March 16, 1985.
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subject_titleGary 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.
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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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