Allen Ginsberg

Boiler repairmen on East 12th Street near Avenue A, Manhattan December 4, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.19

Not on view

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.26

Not on view

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.37

Not on view

A pale-skinned, bearded man sits on the far side of a table strewn with magazines and newspapers in this horizontal, black and white photograph. The man’s shoulders are angled slightly to our left, and he looks steadily out at us with hooded eyes. Wrinkles line his forehead and cheeks between his nose and mouth. His straight hair is brushed up and back and he has a full beard. His left forearm, to our right, lies along the edge of the table, and he leans onto that elbow. The other hand rests on his knee. His long shirt sleeves are rolled up over the elbows, and he wears a diagonally striped tie. Something weighs down the breast pocket of his rumpled shirt. Two lit taper candles are in short, bulb-shaped candlesticks to the right next to an ashtray holding cigarette butts. The foil surface of a cigarette box gleams on the table behind the candles. A pair of glasses sits on two magazines in front of the man. A box television is directly behind the man, and other objects in the background are swallowed in shadow. A long, handwritten inscription along the bottom reads, “Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard _Old Angel Midnight_ eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986. Allen Ginsberg.”

Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard Old Angel Midnight eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1996

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.23

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Joe Richey poet Crosslegged on Floor, St. Marks Poet Bob Holman eyeglassed leaning back, Tom Savage standing cross-armed, Jose CORONEL Urtecho in Beret elder Nica poet modernist, Sandinista Bluefields poet Carlos Rigby at Table, host smiling in head chair, Nicaraguan Poetry brigade folk listening to sound poem on cassette by Dr. Fernando Silva, "Cici" Fernandez' house, Granada, Nicaragua, January 26, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.4

Not on view

Rob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.24

Not on view

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.60

Not on view

John Hammond ill, his apartment on Sutton Place December 4, 1986

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1990

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.25

Not on view

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1987

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.22

Not on view

Family house living room wall, went with Poet Doctor Fernando Silva & 82 year old Modernist Poundian & Dario expert Jose Coronel Urtecho & Crowd of Sandinesta Poets for Annual Ruben Dario Festival visit to Grenada home of one of the poets to listen to sound- Poetry tapes visit Countryside & eat- mementos on wall, family photos, diplomas, votive medals & Christ figurines, local dolls & Virgins, fans & purses mementos of Abuela Grandma-- Grenada, Nicaragua January 26, 1986-- Beltran Morales' home.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.39

Not on view

Listeners at Poetry reading, coffee-loading truck shed in hills, Nicaragua, January 23, '86

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.5

Not on view

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.15

Not on view

Allen Ginsberg

Boiler repairmen on East 12th Street near Avenue A, Manhattan December 4, 1986.

Boiler repairmen on East 12th Street near Avenue A, Manhattan December 4, 1986.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

Rob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.

Rob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

John Hammond ill, his apartment on Sutton Place December 4, 1986

John Hammond ill, his apartment on Sutton Place December 4, 1986

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Listeners at Poetry reading, coffee-loading truck shed in hills, Nicaragua, January 23, '86

Listeners at Poetry reading, coffee-loading truck shed in hills, Nicaragua, January 23, '86

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

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