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., 1995

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 29.3 × 19.6 cm (11 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2016.184.16

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: 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.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #98 VE; top right in graphite: X; upper right in graphite: 3/12/95 / Neg 9; upper right in graphite: ✓; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-263; bottom right in graphite: GDC-640

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.