William S. Burroughs slightly zonked, his dooryard-garden wall Villa Muneria, looking at me suspiciously, "Who are you an Agent for?" He "traced back along word-lines," cut-up technique of anti-brainwash language analysis, inquiring sources of my mental conditioning, perhaps Liberal Professor Trilling, perhaps "a trust of giant insects from another Galaxy" conspiring to make Nova Conditions on our Planet, exterminate HomoSap the Human animal so another life-form, virus invasion, move in on the Turf, such like poetries on his mind. Timothy Leary visited from Harvard, we took small amount of psilocybin, Bill shut himself inside his garden gate with a wave of his hand, allergic, paranoia season. Peter Orlovsky departed alone, ship to Athens, Bill employed for Scandinavia L.S.O. Conference leaving Gregory Corso and myself waving him goodbye, 1961, printed 1995

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28.26 × 41.59 cm (11 1/8 × 16 3/8 in.)

sheet: 40.48 × 50.48 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2010.137.28

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: William S. Burroughs slightly zonked, his dooryard-garden wall Villa Muneria, looking at me suspic- / iously, "Who are you an agent for? He "traced back along word-llines," cut-up technique of anti-brainwash lang- / uage analysis, inquiring sources of my mental conditioning, perhaps Liberal Professor Trilling, perhaps "a trust / of giant insects from another Galaxy" conspiring to make Nova Conditions on our Planet, exterminate HomoSap [sic] / the Human animal so another life-form, virus invasion, move in on the Turf, suchlike [sic] poetries on his mind. / Timothy Leary visited from Harvard, we took small amount of Psylocibin [sic], Bill shut himself inside his / garden gate with a wave of his hand, allergic, paranoia season. Peter Orlovsky departed alone, ship / to Athens, Bill employed for Scandinavia L.S.O. Conference leaving Gregory Corso and myself waving / him goodbye at the airport Limo on Boulevard Pasteur. We all rejoined company in Paris later that year. Here Tangier, May 1961. Allen Ginsberg; rubber stamp in black ink, center: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: AG signed 10/25/95; lower right in graphite: 1/3 SK / Tanger 1961 / 47/810; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-7; bottom right in graphite: GDC-905

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.