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Peter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tangier, 1957. Third man- Paul Lund.
Peter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tangier, 1957. Third man- Paul Lund.
Allen Ginsberg
1957, printed later
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Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. Naked Lunch letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' Interzone word-hoard, his own On the Road just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. Naked Lunch letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' Interzone word-hoard, his own On the Road just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
Allen Ginsberg
1957, printed 1996
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Wise-eyed Alan Ansen, Polymath expatriate & eccentric, at San Sammuelle motorscaffe station, half-street from his apartment 3219 della Carrozza where Peter Orlovsky & I spent happy summer 1957- Ansen also hosted Wm. Burroughs & Gregory Corso. Harvard Classics summa cum laude 1942, Poet, critic, he was secretary & Prosodic Conscience to W.H. Auden during early 40’s Age of Anxiety, thereafter lifelong intimate of Auden & companion Chester Kallman-- as with William Burroughs whose Naked Lunch & later ravings he helped type & edit in Tangier 1957 & 1961. A familiar at San Remo village bar & Kerouac's companions' revels in late 1940's, he's sketched as "Rollo Grab" in On the Road, "Ronald Swenson" in Visons of Cody and Book of Dreams, "Austin Bromberg" in The Subterraneans & Amadeus Baroque, Doctor Sex....
Wise-eyed Alan Ansen, Polymath expatriate & eccentric, at San Sammuelle motorscaffe station, half-street from his apartment 3219 della Carrozza where Peter Orlovsky & I spent happy summer 1957- Ansen also hosted Wm. Burroughs & Gregory Corso. Harvard Classics summa cum laude 1942, Poet, critic, he was secretary & Prosodic Conscience to W.H. Auden during early 40’s Age of Anxiety, thereafter lifelong intimate of Auden & companion Chester Kallman-- as with William Burroughs whose Naked Lunch & later ravings he helped type & edit in Tangier 1957 & 1961. A familiar at San Remo village bar & Kerouac's companions' revels in late 1940's, he's sketched as "Rollo Grab" in On the Road, "Ronald Swenson" in Visons of Cody and Book of Dreams, "Austin Bromberg" in The Subterraneans & Amadeus Baroque, Doctor Sex....
Allen Ginsberg
1957, printed 1995
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William Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...
William Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...
Allen Ginsberg
c. 1957, printed later
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Dead creature, Xauen, Morocco 1957.
Dead creature, Xauen, Morocco 1957.
Allen Ginsberg
1957, printed later
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Gregory Corso Paris 1957 his attic 9 Rue-Gît-Le-Coeur with magic wand, Louvre postcards tacked to wall left, wooden angel kid on wire right, window on courtyard. Burroughs came to live a flight below, Peter Orlovsky & I had window on street two floors down, room with two burner gas stove – LeRoi Jones (Yugen magazine) and Irving Rosenthal (Chicago Review) wrote us from U.S. for poems, Gregory had “Marriage” ready, “Power,” “Army” & “Police” also. I began Kaddish, Peter “Frist Poem,” Burroughs shaping Naked Lunch. Madame Rachou, Concierge.
Gregory Corso Paris 1957 his attic 9 Rue-Gît-Le-Coeur with magic wand, Louvre postcards tacked to wall left, wooden angel kid on wire right, window on courtyard. Burroughs came to live a flight below, Peter Orlovsky & I had window on street two floors down, room with two burner gas stove – LeRoi Jones (Yugen magazine) and Irving Rosenthal (Chicago Review) wrote us from U.S. for poems, Gregory had “Marriage” ready, “Power,” “Army” & “Police” also. I began Kaddish, Peter “Frist Poem,” Burroughs shaping Naked Lunch. Madame Rachou, Concierge.
Allen Ginsberg
1957, printed later
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Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky at kitchen table, Peter's apartment 5 Turner Terrace, a veteran's housing Project near a gigantic gas tank on Potrero Hill. 23 year old Peter brought Lafcadio, age 15, to Bay Area to stay with us, relieve his mother Kate in Northport, L.I., where Lafcadio knew Kerouac, and had visions of becoming a millionaire (and building a private space-ship to get off Nuked Planet Earth to another world) by answering dozens & dozens of get-rich-quick home-sales ads ("Earn $800.00 a day selling special Fish-bait oil by Telephone!") in pulp magazines' back pages. next Laf quit Jr. High School to bicycle downtown S.F. for dishwashing job--"One of the best periods of his life, getting his first whiff of work, money, independence, he was sparking up, got three social security cards, the F.B.I. came round to investigate" . . .
Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky at kitchen table, Peter's apartment 5 Turner Terrace, a veteran's housing Project near a gigantic gas tank on Potrero Hill. 23 year old Peter brought Lafcadio, age 15, to Bay Area to stay with us, relieve his mother Kate in Northport, L.I., where Lafcadio knew Kerouac, and had visions of becoming a millionaire (and building a private space-ship to get off Nuked Planet Earth to another world) by answering dozens & dozens of get-rich-quick home-sales ads ("Earn $800.00 a day selling special Fish-bait oil by Telephone!") in pulp magazines' back pages. next Laf quit Jr. High School to bicycle downtown S.F. for dishwashing job--"One of the best periods of his life, getting his first whiff of work, money, independence, he was sparking up, got three social security cards, the F.B.I. came round to investigate" . . .
Allen Ginsberg
1956, printed 1995
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Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in Desolation Angels —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.
Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in Desolation Angels —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.
Allen Ginsberg
1956, printed later
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All dressed up with tie & tweed jacket, recently matriculated for M.A. at U.C. Berkeley, I'd just written Part II Howl, Supermarket in California, & Sunflower Sutra, clean-shaven poet, on Berkeley Street lighting a coffin-nail, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hands, 1956.
All dressed up with tie & tweed jacket, recently matriculated for M.A. at U.C. Berkeley, I'd just written Part II Howl, Supermarket in California, & Sunflower Sutra, clean-shaven poet, on Berkeley Street lighting a coffin-nail, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hands, 1956.
Allen Ginsberg
1956, printed later
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Bob 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.
Bob 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.
Allen Ginsberg
1956, printed later
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Peter Orlovsky age 23 on Ginny Lehrman's lawn Berkeley
Peter Orlovsky age 23 on Ginny Lehrman's lawn Berkeley
Allen Ginsberg
1956, printed later
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