John Wieners for me among top ten American poets visiting my room Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. We'd met 3 decades earlier at Cedar Bar, N.Y.-- Robert Creeley & Frank O'Hara both admired / his gifts then, _Hotel Wentley Poems_ were published 1958 - - but none of his books were in print at the time of this visit February 1, 1985. Since then Raymond Foye edited 2 volumes-- all Wieners' Poetry -- For Black Sparrow Press.
Allen Ginsberg
1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.7 × 29.6 cm (7 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2016.184.33
About the Artist
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), born in Newark, New Jersey, emerged as a multifaceted figure in American culture, best known as a Beat Generation poet but also a prolific visual artist whose photographs, drawings, and prints captured the raw energy of his era. His early life offers little documentation on artistic training, though he attended Columbia University in the 1940s, where he formed connectio...