Poet John Giorno & Bill's secretary Jim Grauerholz aghast at William S. Burroughs' whip-fast draw of flexible blackjack- - Bowery junkies try to steal his wallet watch out Muggers! Age 71 Burroughs'd returned to his old "Bunker" (formerly gym locker-room) in N.Y. with mss. _Place of Dead Roads_, second novel of trilogy. Scar on Giorno's belly from cancer operation decade earlier; Giorno by then resident had set up wall black- clothed with stage-lights for his poetry rock & roll rehearsals. March 26, 1985.
Allen Ginsberg
1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26 × 25.2 cm (10 1/4 × 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2015.163.21
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...