Gary S. Davis

I’d asked Robert Frank to take portrait for Selected Poems dust jacket, he showed up late Sunday afternoon, truck parked across from my apartment, yelled up, he had no camera. I came down with Leica & Fuji 6×9, he took some photos midstreet by his car, I snapped him thus, then with my Fuji he said, “This’ll be it,” as long lambent orange sunlight rayed down East 12th Street from Hudson River horizon, it worked fine for book, he was relaxed, accidentally unerring. N.Y. June 9, 1996.

Allen Ginsberg

1996

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.33

Peter 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.

Allen Ginsberg

1996

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2011.146.25

Self-Portrait on my seventieth birthday in Borsalino hat and black cashmere-silk scarf from Milan & Dublin Thornproof-tweed suit, Oleg Cassini tie from Goodwill shirt same source, kitchen window mid-day, I stayed home & worked on Selected Poems 1947 – ’95 proofs after returning from Walker Art Centre reading — Beat exhibition weekend. Monday, June 3, 1996, N.Y.

Allen Ginsberg

1996

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.108.9

Dic Jones, ex Bardic Chair-holder, farmer on school steps where Eisteddfod Englynion contest was held. In the Night: "No hymn of birds, no Tremor -- save the sounds of the sea's sad tenor, / The stars ascend in splendor / and the dark creeps round the door." Aberystwyth, Wales April 8, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.20

Gregory Corso, Maestro Poet, ancient herald’s wand pin, messenger-god Hermes Caduceus near his pen, a quiet afternoon in “The Kettle of Fish,” an old bar in Greenwich Village under whose sign Kerouac used to drink. Gregory called me to join him, we spent a few hours talking till supper time, tired he took cab home to Horatio Street, March 13, 1995. I showed him poems by 19 year old new poet, he liked them too.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.32

Geoffrey Manough, day after 18th birthday, Poet visiting New York from College Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pasta salad on 1st ave. "I feel like I could Walk / into a forest / and start a fire with every footprint / ...I have found a me long buried / beneath sludge, gripe, and scabs / beneath discrimination and self-hate. / All devices aside, / I can now say that the race is won. / I'm over the line." From Mystic's Fists pamphlet. March 21, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.16

Poet Dafydd Rowlands above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' boat-house, we'd drive back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition, met Bardic Chair-holders Dic Jones, & we returned to Swansea Poetry festival where I'd stayed nearly a week, April 8, 1995

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.28

Danny Kalb, Cafe Au Go Go Bleecker Street, I came by with his student my work-mate Peter Hale to hear late set, Greenwich Village, N.Y., April 12, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.38

Welsh Poet Dafydd Rowlands & myself above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' Boat-house, he'd driven us back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition where we'd met ex-Bardic Chair-holder former Dic Jones, thence we returned to Swansea Poetry Festival where I'd stayed six days, April 5, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.34

Lafcadio Orlovsky, with sister Marie. I went to Park Lake Rest Home Ronkonkoma L.I. where he’d been sheltered & sedated the last few years, silent - till Catholic Charities arranged for Day-Care thrice weekly, he woke a bit & began crayon drawing again, phoned me & asked me to visit with Marie after 2 years absence. “Can I go home and live with Marie?” We went to restaurant on highway nearby March 21, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.62

David Greenberg, Phi Beta Kappa Rutgers U. '93, poet, art curator & essayist, guitar song composer Indie-Rock group "Pen Pal", co-editor Soft Skull press, Corso friend & scholar, fresh from 24th birthday head-shave. After graduation he lived six months in little guest-room open-doored behind him, worked odd jobs in Manhattan. March 13, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.25

Lita Hornick in her dining room, dessert for our lunch, Richard Boseman’s “The Norseman” on her north wall, we thought to visit Franz Klein exhibit at Whitney Museum a few blocks from her Park Avenue apartment. Writer, critic, excellent art & poetry patron. February 2, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg

1995

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.24

Gary S. Davis

Dic Jones, ex Bardic Chair-holder, farmer on school steps where Eisteddfod Englynion contest was held. In the Night: "No hymn of birds, no Tremor -- save the sounds of the sea's sad tenor, / The stars ascend in splendor / and the dark creeps round the door." Aberystwyth, Wales April 8, 1995.

Dic Jones, ex Bardic Chair-holder, farmer on school steps where Eisteddfod Englynion contest was held. In the Night: "No hymn of birds, no Tremor -- save the sounds of the sea's sad tenor, / The stars ascend in splendor / and the dark creeps round the door." Aberystwyth, Wales April 8, 1995.

Poet Dafydd Rowlands above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' boat-house, we'd drive back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition, met Bardic Chair-holders Dic Jones, & we returned to Swansea Poetry festival where I'd stayed nearly a week, April 8, 1995

Poet Dafydd Rowlands above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' boat-house, we'd drive back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition, met Bardic Chair-holders Dic Jones, & we returned to Swansea Poetry festival where I'd stayed nearly a week, April 8, 1995

Danny Kalb, Cafe Au Go Go Bleecker Street, I came by with his student my work-mate Peter Hale to hear late set, Greenwich Village, N.Y., April 12, 1995.

Danny Kalb, Cafe Au Go Go Bleecker Street, I came by with his student my work-mate Peter Hale to hear late set, Greenwich Village, N.Y., April 12, 1995.

Welsh Poet Dafydd Rowlands & myself above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' Boat-house, he'd driven us back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition where we'd met ex-Bardic Chair-holder former Dic Jones, thence we returned to Swansea Poetry Festival where I'd stayed six days, April 5, 1995.

Welsh Poet Dafydd Rowlands & myself above Laugharne Bay & Dylan Thomas' Boat-house, he'd driven us back from Aberystwyth Eisteddfod englynion competition where we'd met ex-Bardic Chair-holder former Dic Jones, thence we returned to Swansea Poetry Festival where I'd stayed six days, April 5, 1995.

Lita Hornick in her dining room, dessert for our lunch, Richard Boseman’s “The Norseman” on her north wall, we thought to visit Franz Klein exhibit at Whitney Museum a few blocks from her Park Avenue apartment. Writer, critic, excellent art & poetry patron. February 2, 1995.

Lita Hornick in her dining room, dessert for our lunch, Richard Boseman’s “The Norseman” on her north wall, we thought to visit Franz Klein exhibit at Whitney Museum a few blocks from her Park Avenue apartment. Writer, critic, excellent art & poetry patron. February 2, 1995.

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