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“. . . dreaming out the window eat my gruel / as ailanthus trees bud & grow thick green, seaweed in rainy Atlantis, / lose leaves after snowfall, sit bare branched in January’s rusty winds? / Snap photographs focus’d on the clothesline, courtyard chimneypots a block away?” See “May Days 1988,” Cosmopolitan Greetings book. Here new buds of May, raindrops on the clothesline, the picture taken four days after poem was written — Lower East Side N.Y. May 7, 1988.
“. . . dreaming out the window eat my gruel / as ailanthus trees bud & grow thick green, seaweed in rainy Atlantis, / lose leaves after snowfall, sit bare branched in January’s rusty winds? / Snap photographs focus’d on the clothesline, courtyard chimneypots a block away?” See “May Days 1988,” Cosmopolitan Greetings book. Here new buds of May, raindrops on the clothesline, the picture taken four days after poem was written — Lower East Side N.Y. May 7, 1988.
Allen Ginsberg
1988
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San Francisco "K." Commune feeds hundreds of homeless folk on Saturdays and their Small Free Inn Band puts on a show, we had a private viewing when visiting Irving Rosenthal & Friends May 23, 1988-- in their vegetarian-grain soup-kitchen, Jimmy Gutierrez in cap watching Jeannie- single hand to heart John O'Brien first time in Curlers, Chandler hand raised in lyric surprise, shadow-eyed Gren behind music stand. "I saw it in a millinery shop-window in 1928... They look like they're made of wax," Harry Smith noticed later.
San Francisco "K." Commune feeds hundreds of homeless folk on Saturdays and their Small Free Inn Band puts on a show, we had a private viewing when visiting Irving Rosenthal & Friends May 23, 1988-- in their vegetarian-grain soup-kitchen, Jimmy Gutierrez in cap watching Jeannie- single hand to heart John O'Brien first time in Curlers, Chandler hand raised in lyric surprise, shadow-eyed Gren behind music stand. "I saw it in a millinery shop-window in 1928... They look like they're made of wax," Harry Smith noticed later.
Allen Ginsberg
1988
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City Lights Bookstore visit—Philip Whalen poet Zen Sensei, anonymous eyeglassed onlooker, Amy and Michael McClure with shopowner poet-painter Laurence Ferlinghetti standing framed in door; below Nanao Sakaki Japonesia’s Bum-Academy longhair poet king, and John Montgomery kneeling beside him, Proud to be Characterized by Jack Kerouac 30 years earlier as a foolish mountaineer in The Dharma Bums. San Francisco, May 22, 1988.
City Lights Bookstore visit—Philip Whalen poet Zen Sensei, anonymous eyeglassed onlooker, Amy and Michael McClure with shopowner poet-painter Laurence Ferlinghetti standing framed in door; below Nanao Sakaki Japonesia’s Bum-Academy longhair poet king, and John Montgomery kneeling beside him, Proud to be Characterized by Jack Kerouac 30 years earlier as a foolish mountaineer in The Dharma Bums. San Francisco, May 22, 1988.
Allen Ginsberg
1988
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Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident alchemist- philosopher at the Kerouac Poetics school for several years till his last trip back to Manhattan to receive Obie award for life - long preservation of American Folk Music, and death soon after in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel.
Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident alchemist- philosopher at the Kerouac Poetics school for several years till his last trip back to Manhattan to receive Obie award for life - long preservation of American Folk Music, and death soon after in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel.
Allen Ginsberg
1988, printed 1995
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Gary Snyder and then-wife Masa Uehara after supper in the Kerosene-lit farmhouse kitchen at “Kitkitdizze” on San Juan Ridge, a Japanese style tile-roofed dwelling in park-like oak and Ponderosa pine woods 3000 feet up on Western slope of California Sierra Mountains, May 30, 1988.
Gary Snyder and then-wife Masa Uehara after supper in the Kerosene-lit farmhouse kitchen at “Kitkitdizze” on San Juan Ridge, a Japanese style tile-roofed dwelling in park-like oak and Ponderosa pine woods 3000 feet up on Western slope of California Sierra Mountains, May 30, 1988.
Allen Ginsberg
1988
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Wavy Gravy & his rubber nose, giant Seva Benefit organized by Ram Dass at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan November 26, 1988, seven thousand souls attending, Wavy the M.C. for part of the evening, here in a side chapel south of the altar.
Wavy Gravy & his rubber nose, giant Seva Benefit organized by Ram Dass at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan November 26, 1988, seven thousand souls attending, Wavy the M.C. for part of the evening, here in a side chapel south of the altar.
Allen Ginsberg
1988
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Joe Richey walking down main street of Bluefields, Nicaragua's East coast port, January 29, 1987, we were hosted by Sandinista poet Carlos Rigby
Joe Richey walking down main street of Bluefields, Nicaragua's East coast port, January 29, 1987, we were hosted by Sandinista poet Carlos Rigby
Allen Ginsberg
1987
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My 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.
My 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.
Allen Ginsberg
1987
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Peter Orlovsky (b. 1933 –) visiting his family — Lafcadio then age 47 had lived with us S.F – N.Y. 1955 – ’61 & intermittent years later on; Mother Katherine aged 78 totally deaf lip-reading some after botched mastoid operation N.Y. Eye & Ear Hospital 1933, drunken surgeon; Laff’s twin sister Maril who’d roomed with Peter & me East 2’nd Street Lower East Side 1959 while attending baby-nurse school in Jersey, later a half-dozen years she quit hospital job angry hearing other nurse voices’ “filthy gossip” she said about Me and My Brother, Robert Frank’s film on Orlovskys— all this two decades before this moment. From second floor flat on lonely Cottontail Road they needed taxi for any heavy shopping with monthly Social Service Indemnity checks at Supermarket a mile away in Center Moriches, Long Island. July 26, 1987.
Peter Orlovsky (b. 1933 –) visiting his family — Lafcadio then age 47 had lived with us S.F – N.Y. 1955 – ’61 & intermittent years later on; Mother Katherine aged 78 totally deaf lip-reading some after botched mastoid operation N.Y. Eye & Ear Hospital 1933, drunken surgeon; Laff’s twin sister Maril who’d roomed with Peter & me East 2’nd Street Lower East Side 1959 while attending baby-nurse school in Jersey, later a half-dozen years she quit hospital job angry hearing other nurse voices’ “filthy gossip” she said about Me and My Brother, Robert Frank’s film on Orlovskys— all this two decades before this moment. From second floor flat on lonely Cottontail Road they needed taxi for any heavy shopping with monthly Social Service Indemnity checks at Supermarket a mile away in Center Moriches, Long Island. July 26, 1987.
Allen Ginsberg
1987
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