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List of works by Allen Ginsberg

"Head bowed on his shoulder, now and then, he listened." My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet chair 1976 the year he died. See poems in "Don't Grow Old" series for further explanation.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154188)

A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157056)

A.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

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208429)

A.G. & P.O. 5 Turner Terrace, Potrero Hill Housing Project, Peter's kitchen, hot summer day 1956.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160752)

Ai Wei Wei sometime around Tompkins Square Riots, Police cars by the Park, Avenue A.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157039)

Al Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163958)

Al Sublette, & Peter Orlovsky as I first knew him 1955 S.F.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157021)

Alan Ansen visiting from Greece, William Burroughs leaned forward menacing-visaged, Henry Geldzahler's apt. 9th Street N.Y.C. March 30, 1985. Gathering before Francesco Clemente's vernissage.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208425)

Alene Lee, her friend Jack Kerouac, time of "The Subterraneans," friend Bob Merims in shadow, my apartment East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163982)

Alexei Ginzberg and Sergei Yesenin-vulpine, Moscow 1965.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208447)

Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness alterations in Literature & American Heart Land, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154171)

Allen Ginsberg Gregory Corso William Seward Burroughs, Garden Party July 29, 1985 Naropa Institute. Camera in Ted Morgan's hands

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205216)

Allen Ginsberg at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 7 November 1969

Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair first back from Galveston-Dakar Doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the ship's fantail, smoking what? In New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 143959)

Allen Ginsbergʼs address, 1965. Manuscript

Amiri Baraka née Leroi Jones, American Poet, on Greensward picnic outside Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado August 5, 1985, sunny afternoon.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154183)

Andrei Voznesensky, afternoon at Christine's Polish restaurant 12'th St. and 1'st Ave. near my apartment March 29, 1987

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163946)

Angkor Wat

book by Allen Ginsberg

Anna & George Condo before center of large canvas, "Adoration of St. Lucy" nailed to wall of his studio then in large townhouse East 64th Street Manhattan, first time I visited them, January 15, 1993.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205237)

Basil Bunting Summer 1973, we went from Bede's grave Durham Cathedral to a Northumbrian Churchyard where he preferred to be buried in time.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205220)

Berenice Abbott May 14, 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154193)

Bill 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

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142165)

Bill Burroughs with camera in his room Villa Muniria Tangier 1961. His writing desk.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205210)

Bill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163963)

Bill Wyman

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160725)

Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Paris, Dubuisson, 1865, printed book with an original drawing by Allen Ginsberg

Bob Dylan, Tompkins Square Park, ten minutes later we were chased out onto Avenue A by homeless men sleeping in the bandshell who threw bottles at us mistakenly thinking we were taking their pictures. May 21, 1990.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144257)

Carl Solomon on Sunday 1983 Springtime, Bronx, we spent all afternoon, he caught 6 fish, I ate them.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205234)

Center, John Cage, Merce Cunningham conscious & Jasper Johns hand clasped at Academy induction ceremonial meeting, May 17, 1989.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142198)

Chaim and Renee Gross, October 1984 at Raphael Soyer's Cooper Union Exhibition, his portrait of them, the opening.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205244)

Charles Olson 1963 Vancouver. Warren Tallman's house. Bobbie. Robert Creeley Working Proof.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142207)

Charles Olson, the President, Vancouver Poetry Conference 1963, we stayed in Warren Tallman's house -- here the kitchen.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205211)

Cosmopolitan Greetings

jazz opera by George Gruntz and Rolf Liebermann

Creeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163974)

Czechoslovak electoral program signed by Allen Ginsberg

Czeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163954)

Czeslaw Milosz waiting his turn to read poetry, Philadelphia, late March 1984 —

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142203)

Deliberate Prose

book by Allen Ginsberg

Dick 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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208436)

Dr. R. D. Laing, his residence office study, Poet Tom Pickard in chair, Hampstead, London April 25, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208430)

Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical therapist, his office study in Hampstead, difficult period drinking considerably, longtime marriage & household break-up, London April 25, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160742)

Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208439)

Elizabeth F. Holmes, her living room Waldoboro Maine, I visited with Robert Creely who has house outside of town-- June 24, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163947)

Ellie Dorfman in her big breakfast room, holding up a Xerox copy of N.Y. Times _White Shroud Poem_, January 1985. _Elsa's House Book_ photos fixed many Cambridge Poetry visitors.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205236)

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163973)

Elvin Jones, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, late May 1984, Robert Frank's Polaroid #195 camera he let me use. We were all teaching together at Atlantic Center for the Arts.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160748)

Eugene Brooks at Seder Table, Patterson, New Jersey E. 34th St. our house

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160729)

Father Pierre Riches at kitchen table December 4, 1992

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208419)

Fond Kiki William's friend, W.S. Burroughs, Chris Wanklin at another table in T-shirt, Soco Chico Tanger Maroc circa mid-fifties, negative in my archives.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142209)

Francesco 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

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205229)

Francesco Clemente at his opening Mary Boone Gallery March 30, 1985 -- I liked the portrait of the monster & asked him to stand next to it.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205230)

Francesco Clemente, artist, & C.T. Nachiappan (his printer host in Madras at Kalakshetra Press -- Hanuman Editions) at Kyiv restaurant on Second Avenue and 7th Street

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142152)

Francesco Clemente, painter inspired by Wm. Blake, looking over album I'd scribed for his watercolor illumination, his loft overlooking Great Jones Street Manhattan. He liked this picture, October 1984

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142151)

Friend Robert Merims early 1950s

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163977)

Gary Snyder Poet & Zen student out on mountainside forest hike near Sea of Japan, July 1963.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205228)

Gary Snyder with Parka, Kausani...Himalayan backdrop, 1963 India

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157032)

Gary Snyder, Masa and youngest son Gen, Kitkitdizze household, May 30, 1988, Nevada City California, San Juan Ridge.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163948)

Gary Snyder, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg on wall overlooking Himalayan range vista, Kausani 1962. Joanne Kyger snapped the photo in my camera, the four of us making Buddhist tour of India stopped to visit Lama Anagarika Govinda.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160750)

Gelek Rimpoche working hard to ferry a few students across the waters after outing on lake-front bathing shore, late-summer Jewel Heart retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan August 27, 1993.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163967)

George Condo in his studio townhouse East 64th Street, N.Y. January 15, 1993

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208432)

Gregory Corso - Tangier 1961 - Peter & my room -

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154187)

Gregory Corso Paris 1957, looking out his skylight 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur. At this time he had completed Bomb and was "eliminating ""_Death_" & "_Clown_".

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154185)

Gregory Corso and myself double-portrait Siamese poetry twins, my whitewashed-walled room in Tanger, 1961. Peter Orlovsky held camera?

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142205)

Gregory Corso embraced by intimate friend, The Bistro, Jane & W. 4th Street, December 21, 1992.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208428)

Gregory Corso musing on cot in room Peter Orlovsky & I shared in Tangier 1961 - we interviewed each other and Burroughs for first issue of City Lights Journal for Protection of All Beings, lots of talk.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154200)

Gregory Corso on Boulevard Pasteur Tangier 1961. Psilocybin Days. Arab & French Posters.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157042)

Gregory Corso serious, straightforward looking at me on Jane Faigao's patio, hot tub behind him, he'd taken psychedelic "Ecstasy" powders earlier in the day-- "Empathy" probably be a more accurate name--we were teaching at Narapa Poetics School

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157031)

Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox

poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975

Helen Parker's boys Bruce & Tommy, circa 1953, Greenwich Village, she was my friend when I was in N.Y. Psychiatric Institute a few years earlier, now we'd go to Italian restaurants downstairs on MacDougal Street with Ramblin Jack Eliot.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205239)

Henry Schlactner, Kerouac’s friend Al Sublette by Peter Orlovsky. Foster’s Cafeteria S.F. 1955. Me on right.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 143973)

Herbert E. Huncke age 69 retired from the street on methadone program, head tilted wise-eyed for wry conversation, about to say something charming, flattering or honest at the kitchen table New York March 1984.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160743)

Howl

1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement

Howl and Other Poems

literary work by Allen Ginsberg

Howl and Other Poems

1959 edition of Howl and Other Poems

Howl: and other poems

individual copy of a book

Hugh MacDiarmid on his 81'st Birthday at gate of his cottage, Biggar, Scotland summer 1973.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205233)

Hydrogen Jukebox

opera by Philip Glass

I met Lance Hendrickson by accident Tangier 1961 & took his picture

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160732)

Ignu

poem written by Allen Ginsberg

Inquisitive girl, I bowed down to say hello, a moment on sidewalk early summer, East 10 St between First and Avenue A, Lower E. Side N.Y. June 22, 1993 -

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154179)

Iron Horse

book by Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157043)

Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154195)

Jack Kerouac passing corner bar Avenue B & East 7th N.Y., we went out for a walk along Tompkins Park, September 1953

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157047)

Jack Kerouac with Wm. Burroughs’ cat in garden Villa Muniria. Jack had place upstairs from Bill 2 flights, French windows with spacious red-tiled veranda overlooking Tangier Bay and Gibraltar distant, rent 40$ a month or less. 1957.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160755)

Jack Micheline in front of Trieste Cafe March 16, 1985 San Francisco

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208421)

James Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154168)

Jeff B. Buhl, I met at Kerouac Conference Naropa, here in San Francisco March 1985. Rock & Roll Pact, lives in Berkeley.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163956)

Jim Carroll backstage, Public theater N.Y. September 1984

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205212)

Jimmie Schuyler dining with artist Bill Katy and friend Raymond Foye from Chelsea Hotel, November 7, 1987 in Soho, Chanterelle Restaurant.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163951)

Joanne Kyger (Snyder) & Gary Snyder Poet-Zen students, their little house, Nishi-Noyama-Cho, Kita-ku-Murasaki-No area of Kyoto, June 1963

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157045)

Joanne Kyger, hills leading to Himalayan flats, studying guidebook on wall in Aurora, we were on Pilgrimage to Buddhist sites, here visiting Lama Govinda, March 1962.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157033)

Joanne Kyger, then Gary Snyder's wife, on train - visit to Japan Sea, 1963 Summer.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154186)

Joe Richey and New York ladies on Roland Leggiardi-Laura's film crew, waiting at Ministerio de Cultura door, outside Managua, January 23, 1986

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 152507)

Joe Richey walking down main street of Bluefields, Nicaragua's East coast port, January 29, 1987, we were hosted by Sandinista poet Carlos Rigby

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 152506)

John Hammond ill December 4, 1986

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208452)

John Hammond ill, his apartment on Sutton Place December 4, 1986

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163961)

John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205223)

John Murao in Shig's bedroom, Grant Street San Francisco Mid-March 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208420)

Juanita Lieberman had met Peter Orlovsky at Naropa in early 1980's, was now working in my house as secretary March 3, 1985 - went on to nice job publishing at Paragon House, signed up Carl Solomon's Emergency Messages.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157040)

Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160741)

Kaddish

poem by Allen Ginsberg

Kaddish and Other Poems

book of poems by Allen Ginsberg

Kaye McDonough, Nile, and Gregory Corso, Trieste Coffeeshop front, Grant Street San Francisco March 16 or thereabouts 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208422)

Ken Kesey midnight -- lamp'd at Hotel Excelsior w. 81st St. Manhattan, he'd performed his Bear-myth Cantata at Lincoln Center, brief visit to N.Y., his son recently perished in athlete tour-bus crash Northwest. December 14, 1989.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160726)

Kitchen window later afternoon January 23, 1987, snow melted on the sill, I never met Bill Rizzo.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163968)

Kodak-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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157036)

Larry Rivers with his portrait of John Ashbery's poem "Pyrography" 1977, his studio Southhampton, L.I. He worked out with weight-lift instructor that afternoon, as well as cut forms for 3-D styrofoam-paint-canvas construction, July 7, 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142159)

Larry Rivers with his portrait of poet John Ashbery’s poem “Pyrography” (1977), his studio Southhampton L. I. July 7, 1985. He worked out with weightlift instructor too that day, as well as new styrofoam 3-D painting.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144246)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti taking morning expresso at Café Puccini a block or so up Columbus from his City Lights Books, March 16, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154173)

Le lettere dello yage

edition part of the Piccola Biblioteca collection by Adelphi

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160738)

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her living-room Grass Valley California, her son the Poet Gary Snyder found her a house in town near his Sierra Mountains homestead, we visited together, her 82'nd year, Robert Frank liked this snapshot.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208459)

Lorenzo & Larry Ferlinghetti, stopover in Fiji on way to Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia March 72

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163972)

Louis Auchincloss at Dostoevsky writing desk, Dostoevsky House Museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163975)

Louis Ginsberg in Patterson, N.J

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160730)

Louis Ginsberg in our house 416 East 34th Street Paterson, late 1950's?

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154169)

Louis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205227)

Lucien Carr, New York City, March 3, 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163955)

Lucien Carr, his apartment above Sheridan Square, working then for U.P.I.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160734)

Mary Help of Christians R.C. Church facade with cornice pigeons out my 4th floor living-room window, I'd lived in this apartment ten years then, still there, cheap rent-controlled 437 East 12th Street New York September 29, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160761)

Me asleep, snapped by Peter Orlovsky in our little whitewash-walled room Tangier 1961

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205209)

Michael Emerton Kansas City 5/30/91

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163978)

Miguel Grinberg, Eco Contemporáneo editor, Buenos Aires, Havana Cuba before I got deported January 1965

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205206)

Mind Breaths

book by Allen Ginsberg

My brother Eugene Brooks, Lawyer, at his desk at Manning's Tire & Battery Service Used Car Sales, 125 Street & Amsterdam Avenue Manhattan. Jerome Brodsky Insurance Broker jack-in-box from adjoining cubicle. Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154201)

My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet Armchair, last year of his life 1976. See "Don't Grow Old."

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157050)

Natalie Jackson, San Francisco

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205208)

Neal Cassady New York 1964 on visit with Ken Kesey's bus.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163960)

Neal Cassady and Al Hinckle playing chess, San Jose 1955 (or Gough Street) (S.F.) -- both brakemen on S.P. Railroad.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208437)

Neeli Cherkovski & Jesse Cabrera lover doctor at his left, Nile & Gregory Corso, friends, Jack Micheline right, Trieste Coffeeshop March 16, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208431)

Olga Rudge at Ezra Pound Centenary Conference, U. of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1985. We'd met with Pound in Rapallo & Venice 1967.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157034)

One of the most beautiful stranger's faces I ever saw. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160731)

Out my New York kitchen window December 3, 1987, bare leaves, year end.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157019)

Pablo and Robert Frank visiting from Bronx State Hospital, my living room on East 12th Street, October 1984. Same noses.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 150442)

Patrick Warner in the kitchen 437 East 12th Street, New York March 23, 1985. Harry Smith was present then

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205214)

Patrick Warner, Northampton student, in basement of Ellie Dorfman's house, Cambridge Mass. January 1985, desk lamp reflected in his eyes.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208442)

Paul 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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208440)

Paul Bowles preparing mint tea on our arrival at the market area souk center of the medina, we took train from Tangier, stayed a week in his travel friend Christopher Wanklyn's household, Marrakech, Morocco, July 20, 1961

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154194)

Peter Orlovsky age 21 with our first car, old delivery truck "The Hearse," Telegraph Hill a block up from our apartment rooms 1010 Montgomery Street near Broadway Corner. We drove to Yosemite, the car cost $125. San Francisco 1955.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157052)

Peter Orlovsky age 23 on Ginny Lehrman's lawn Berkeley

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208424)

Peter Orlovsky at James Joyce’s grave, Zurich Switzerland December 1980, we climbed up to the cemetery and found Joyce’s statue snow covered, brushed it off his head.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 150439)

Peter Orlovsky by pond C.O.P. Farm Cherry Valley

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144265)

Peter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142202)

Peter Orlovsky handsome before he left for Greece. Tangier 1961 The cement porch of our room over the bay.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208423)

Peter Orlovsky in his mother's house

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163959)

Peter Orlovsky in my room 1010 Montgomery Street looking tender and mad, hopeful & happy.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157041)

Peter Orlovsky smoking Indian Hemp, November 1962 at Konarak beside fallen segment of stone sculpture —

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 143976)

Peter Orlovsky's clear inquiring eye in sunlight, Gregory Corso visiting our room, Tangier

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157022)

Philip 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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208441)

Philip Whalen, sensei staying over in my bedroom E. 12 Street, visiting N.Y. from Santa Fe Zen Center, he poetized & lectured at my Brooklyn College class "Literary History of Beat Generation." March 16, 1987.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208448)

Planet News

book by Allen Ginsberg

Poet Larry Eigner, National Poetry Week, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason San Francisco mid-October 1989.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163965)

Poet Michael & Joanna McClure, Cafe Roma a block up Columbus from City Lights Bookstore, October 11, 1984 San Francisco

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205231)

Publisher-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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144260)

R.D. Laing in residence at Naropa Institute, planning to voyage on lecture tour, asked me to visit and make useful photograph. Boulder, Colorado July 7, 1987.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163950)

R.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163949)

Reality Sandwiches

book by Allen Ginsberg

Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157049)

Rick McBride's glasses nose beard, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline, Trieste Cafe March 16, 1985, San Francisco, morning leisures.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157026)

Rob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144251)

Robert Duncan in his front room, San Francisco October 12, 1984

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205226)

Robert Frank and Allen Ginsberg at Frank's Apartment

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 139398)

Robert Frank at his kitchen table, Bleeker Street house, casual visit, November 8, 1988, New York City.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157038)

Robert Frank, his Bleeker Street house New York January 1984, old Polaroid 195 gives negative, portrait for my _Collected Poems 1947-1980_ back-jacket--Peter Orlovsky present snapped us both that hour.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160749)

Robert Frank, inquisitive private look not unkind, patient, "Maybe I could show you something too." Kyiv Restaurant, 2'nd Avenue & 7th Street, March 7, 1984.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144243)

Robert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in _Desolation Angels_, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 143970)

Rudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208427)

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko 3 A.M. at kitchen table after long night drinking and taped conversation re great unpublished Soviet writers & mss., February 18, 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157035)

Sandro Chia & William S. Burroughs at double vernissage Francesco Clemente's paintings, Mary Boone/Leo Castelli Galleries, Soho, March 30, 1985. Chia & Clemente had read Burroughs works when they were young poets in the '60's in Italy.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157024)

Sandro Chia & William S. Burroughs, March 30, 1985 at Francesco Clemente's opening Castelli Gallery New York.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208433)

Sea of Japan, returning after year and half in India, six-week stopover in Japan travelling with Gary Snyder & wife Joanne Kyger, we supped at Zen Temple nearby, Snyder snorkelled, my Kodak Retina probably in Joanne’s hands, early July 1963.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142186)

Self-Portrait with R.D. Lang, living room of his house, Mapleton Street; ending several years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute. We planned departure on lecture tour voyage. Boulder, Colorado. July 7, 1987

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163945)

Self-portrait in guest-suite mirror, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October 10, 1985, I'd lectured on Ezra Pound, Poetized in private high school & visited Jefferson's Monticello.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208446)

September on Jessore Road

poem by Allen Ginsberg

She looked homeless and vivid sitting on the steps of the clinic or Library on 2'nd Avenue as I passed her walking to Gem Spa sometime October 1984.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160756)

Steven Taylor

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163957)

Strong Gregory Corso Tangier 1961, The loner.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205213)

Summer 1965, 8 day backpack climbing in wilderness area of Northern Cascades, Glacier Park, Washington State, Gary Snyder back from a near-decade in Kyoto studying & practicing Zazen. My first mountain walk.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157037)

Tangier 1961 Lance Hendrickson showed up, a beautiful strange face

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157023)

The Ballad of The Skeletons

print in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 118055)

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

book by Allen Ginsberg

The Yage Letters

book by William S. Burroughs II

Tom Parkinson visiting upstairs office City Lights Books 261 Columbus San Francisco March 16, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208426)

Two new wave youths met at Burroughs reading in Berkeley visited my N.Y. apartment January 11, 1985, I'd exchanged addresses with Blake, on left. His friend a Rimbaud reader holds Starkie biography of the original great punk poet I gave as present.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205217)

Untitled #2

print in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 118054)

Visiting 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.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163952)

W. S. Burroughs at rest in the sideyard of his house looking at the sky, empty timeless Lawrence Kansas May 28, 1991. But “the car dates it” he noticed when he saw this snapshot.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144259)

W.S. Burroughs in his London Burberry raincoat purchased by B.B.C., here March 30, 1985 at opening of Francesco Clemente’s painting show Castelli Gallery — the artist’s figure hand outstretched behind Bill’s left shoulder.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144249)

W.S. Burroughs in his room Villa Mouneria Tangier

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154174)

W.S. Burroughs leaving my photo show Holly Solomon Gallery 57th Street & 5th Avenue, New York January 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154170)

WM. Burroughs, loft window 33 Greene Street New York, December 16, 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154080)

Walking down Second Avenue in East 20's I stopped for a meal in Sushi bar, went to the tiny bathroom and saw myself several dozen times multiplied, Aetat 59. September 24, 1985.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160735)

Watching out my kitchen table window for five years now, first leaves on ailanthus trees, rainy day strong wind—I’d snapped photos nearly every week watching the seasons change—here May 18, 1989 from East 12th Street, Lower East Side Manhattan.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160747)

White Shroud Poems

book by Allen Ginsberg

Wichita Vortex Sutra

1966 anti-war poem by Allen Ginsberg

William Burroughs amusing himself with 1953's recent translation of St.-Jean Perse's _Vents_, living room floor 206 East 7th Street New York City, Fall '53.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154192)

William Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142210)

William Burroughs on roof 206 E. 7 Street N.Y. 1953, with view of Tompkins Park

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205222)

William Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into books not published till decades later (as _Queer_, 1985) Lower East Side Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 143962)

William Burroughs' later phase as painter, "Shotgun art" a beginning work at his side, "The Bunker" his old loft on New York's Bowery, 1984. He'd recently moved to Lawerence, Kansas, was visiting New York.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160766)

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of _Yage Letters_ & _Queer_ mss.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 208438)

William Gaddis, novelist of "The Recognitions" at writing desk, Dostoyevsky House museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142150)

William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- _Queer_ & _Yage_ letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 205238)

William S. Burroughs 222 Bowery New York Spring 1985. Illustrating a Wild Boy's horns? Cat's ears?

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160727)

William S. Burroughs fixing typescript of _Yage Letters_ at kitchen table 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 163981)

William S. Burroughs sitting up in back bedroom waiting for my company...

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 142167)

William S. Burroughs, before entering car to airport, his departure from Naropa that summer July 27, 1985, Parking lot behind Varsity Townhouses, Boulder Colorado.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 157046)

William S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tangier 1961.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 154199)

Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160753)

Wm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 160751)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

photograph in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 144253)

Kadiš a jiné básně

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Kral Majales

1965 publication by Allen Ginsberg and Robert LaVigne

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