Poet Philip Whalen, Jerry Heiserman (later Hassan, Sufi) & student Thomas Jackrell (who'd writ interesting document-poem on Campbell's Soup) en route thru Portland Oregon returning from Vancouver Poetry Conference (with Olson Creeley Duncan Levertov) back to Bay Area, July 1963. Jackrell had a camper truck, we stopped to visit Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College, drink Buttermilk downtown.
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subject_titleWilliam Seward Burroughs and Alan Ansen, two elegant gentlemen at entrance to defunct San Remo Café , N.W. corner Bleeker looking north up MacDougal Street, then the heart of Greenwich Village. Before vogue of the Cedar Bar, poets painters Kerouac's "subterraneans" Gregory Corso Carl Solomon myself Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers Maxwell Bodenheim drunk even Dylan Thomas ate drank and talked till 3 AM at this central café - superb inexpensive veal parmigiana and spaghetti a la vongole in rear restaurant, wooden tables - At that season W.S.B.'d published _Junkie_ and we were assembling _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_, Burroughs improvising earliest routines for _Naked Lunch_. Alan Ansen had been Polymath secretary to W.H. Auden a decade before, helping type "_Age of Anxiety_." One mid-afternoon, Fall 1953, fixed with trembling hand.
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subject_titlePeter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (_Desolation Angels_) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
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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 & Robert Frank parked across from my apartment door, his truck --he had stopped by to visit. I brought down my Leica & Fuji cameras & film for him to take my photo for back cover _Selected Poems_. Peter came by. They hadn't seen each other in nine months Peter said. East 12th street, June 11, 1996.
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subject_titleA.G. & Neeli Cherkovski kneeling, Neeli's Doctor boyfriend above his left shoulder, Jack Micheline's right eye, Kaye McDonough, Nile & Gregory Corso and friends from Trieste Coffeeshop March 16 or thereabouts 1985, Jesse Cabrera rear right
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subject_titleGutterboy band—Barb Morrison, Dito Montiel Danny Hulsizer with button shirt & his brother Eric, with drummer Johnny Koncz on Canal Street
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subject_titleTwo men on street--Reno, Nevada
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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_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_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_titleJack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket, couch-pillows airing on fire-escape three flights up overlooking backyard clotheslines south. He’d already published _The Town & the City_ and completed a treasury of half-dozen unprinted classic volumes including _On the Road_, _Visions of Cody_,_ Doctor Sax_, early books of Blues and Dreams, & had begun _The Subterraneans’_ adventurous love affair with Alene Lee, “Mardou Fox.” Alene typed for W. S. Burroughs then in residence editing Yage Letters and Queer mss., unpublishable that decade, censorship ruled. I scribed “The Green Automobile,” Gregory Corso visited that season, 206 East 7th Street near Tompkins Park, Manhattan, probably September 1953.
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subject_creditlineGift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
subject_titleOld time Chinaman of the type that originally followed the crops in California, Sacramento, California
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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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