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_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_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_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_titleDorothy Norman in her house East 70th street Manhattan. We'd met in late 1950's, I'd known of her (b. 1903) as 1930's Civil-libertarian editor/ Publisher of _Twice-A-Year_ journal. Same decade she'd been Alfred Steiglitz' love, he'd photographed her face and hands. New York City, January 3, 1987. Still alive May Day 1995!
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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_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_titleFrancesco Clemente and Julius Orlovsky (Peter's brother) visiting East 6th Street Ramana Maharshi storefront ashram, Lower East Side New York Fall 1984. For Francesco from Allen Ginsberg
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