My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet Armchair, last year of his life 1976. See "Don't Grow Old."
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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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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_titleRobert Creeley Maine Summer 1983 after Williams Congress Orono.
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subject_titleJohn Wieners for me among top ten American poets visiting my room Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. We'd met 3 decades earlier at Cedar Bar, N.Y.-- Robert Creeley & Frank O'Hara both admired / his gifts then, _Hotel Wentley Poems_ were published 1958 - - but none of his books were in print at the time of this visit February 1, 1985. Since then Raymond Foye edited 2 volumes-- all Wieners' Poetry -- For Black Sparrow Press.
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subject_titleMy aunt Clara Lehman talking in mirror of her room, Daughters of Israel old-age Home, she's 83, her 91 year old friend from down the hall visits, they gossip about television, my photo of Clara, her sister my aunt Honey & late uncle Abe sitting together a year earlier in Plexiglas frame by his elbow, photo of her daughters & grandchildren stuck on mirror, I visit her every couple of weeks in West Orange, New Jersey, this was January 26, 1987-- she's my father's younger sister. She'd retired to Miami, Florida, her second husband died, she had to come back to Jersey where most of the family lives.
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subject_titleBill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!
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subject_titleOlga Rudge at Ezra Pound Centenary Conference, U. of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1985. We'd met with Pound in Rapallo & Venice 1967.
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subject_titleWilliam Burroughs listening to new poetry-music tapes I'd made with Elvin Jones. We were staying in adjoining apartments at Varsity Townhouses, rented for the Summer session of Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. We'd come every year since 1974, along with Peter Orlovsky, & Gregory Corso as frequent visitor. Anne Waldman & I co-directed the Buddhist-oriented poetry section. July 1984.
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subject_titleSelf-Portrait on my seventieth birthday in Borsalino hat and black cashmere-silk scarf from Milan & Dublin Thornproof-tweed suit, Oleg Cassini tie from Goodwill shirt same source, kitchen window mid-day, I stayed home & worked on _Selected Poems 1947 – ’95_ proofs after returning from Walker Art Centre reading — Beat exhibition weekend. Monday, June 3, 1996, N.Y.
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subject_titleGelek Rimpoche, meeting him first time in Ann Arbor, benefit-concert reception in hotel for Philip Glass & myself, met Sangha & local dignitaries, November 13, 1989 Probably.
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subject_titleBill Burroughs was in love, you can see the pain in his eyes, the longing. Assembling _Queer_ mss. 1953. 206 E 7 St N.Y.C., 1953
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subject_titleHarry Smith talking to Scotch folk-singer English Professor at University of Mississippi who drove me to visit Ike's Barber Shop in Clarksdale-- Ike had played in Black rhythm & Blues bands around the 40's Country & his shop was legendary social center after he'd returned to his home town-- Harry came to record the rhythm of his barber scissors & razor strapping as we spent the afternoon hanging out & listening to the jukebox by the bar, back of the Barbershop. Later we drove across the Mississippi River & returned to "ole' Miss" at Oxford by midnight, April 19, 1987.
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subject_titleKodak-Retina snapshot by William Burroughs, living room 1953 Lower East Side, Jackson Mac Low portrait with recorder by Iris Brodey on wall. We were working on Bills S.A. letters. I had job on N.Y. World Telegram.
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subject_titleRobert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in _Desolation Angels_, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote _Howl_ in this room, S.F. 1955
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