John Giorno, Henry Geldzahler, in his garden West 9th Street, N.Y.C., Raymond Foye, A. Ginsberg rear, next to Francesco Clemente  (whose Castelli - Mary Boone painting show was to open later that day with receptions), William Burroughs stepping forward glass in hand arms round Alan Ansen's shoulders, March 30, 1985. Snapped by Ira Silverberg. Allen Ginsberg
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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_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_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_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_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_titleRick McBride's glasses nose beard, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline, Trieste Cafe March 16, 1985, San Francisco, morning leisures.
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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_titleHugh MacDiarmid on his 81’st Birthday at home. Scotland 1973.
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subject_titlePoet John Giorno & Bill's secretary Jim Grauerholz aghast at William Burroughs' whip-fast flexible blackjack draw from the hip. Bowery muggers and street junkies try to steal his wallet, watch out! Age 71 Burroughs returned from Lawrence, Kansas to his old "Bunker" loft (formerly a gym locker-room) with _Place of Dead Roads_ mss. Scar on Giorno's belly (March 26, 1985) from cancer operation ten years earlier, he'd set up black cloth'd wall with stage-lights for his Buddhist rock & roll poetry rehearsals. A bunch of Queers me too.
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subject_titleRD Laing, I visited with Poet Tom Pickard, camera in Tom’s hands, Laing’s residence in Hampstead, we were saying goodbye after a four hour talk & tour of house Dr. Laing was soon to depart, his marriage breaking up. London April 25, 1985
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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_titleVisiting R.D. Laing at his Hampstead house with Tom Pickard fellow poet, he greeted us jolly and sad, household breaking up, wife divorcing him, having'd been drinking considerably, Tom snapped this photo with my camera, London April 25, 1985.
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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_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_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_titlePoet John Giorno & Bill's secretary Jim Grauerholz aghast at William S. Burroughs' whip-fast draw of flexible blackjack- - Bowery junkies try to steal his wallet watch out Muggers! Age 71 Burroughs'd returned to his old "Bunker" (formerly gym locker-room) in N.Y. with mss. _Place of Dead Roads_, second novel of trilogy. Scar on Giorno's belly from cancer operation decade earlier; Giorno by then resident had set up wall black- clothed with stage-lights for his poetry rock & roll rehearsals. March 26, 1985.
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subject_titlePhilip Whalen visiting Lloyd Reynolds, his house Reed College- Lloyd had taught Snyder Welch & Whalen their Italic Calligraphy & Challenged McCarthyism & brought W.C. Williams to read, early 1950's. Here late July 1963, Portland Oregon.
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