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Metal life mask of James Dickey next to an issue of Esquire Magazine, which features Dickey on the cover.

Allen Ginsberg's Committee on Poetry, Inc. farm, Cherry Valley, New York Thanksgiving l969. From left, standing: Julius Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gordon Ball, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley. Front, seated: Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky.

Poets Philip Whalen (left) and Allen Ginsberg at Ball's apartment, August 1971, San Francisco. Soon Allen would leave for Bangladesh, where he'd write "September on Jessore Road."

Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, novelist William S. Burroughs, swimming pool area, Varsity Apartments, Boulder, Colorado, July 1976.

Harmonium case of Allen Ginsberg, April 8, 1997, in his 13th Street loft.

Cadets read Howl, February 19, 1991, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Photographer Allen Ginsberg shoots rock star Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), New York University Beat conference, May 22, 1994.
Reading from On the Road during marathon reading of the novel.

Allen Ginsberg inscribes his Collected Poems for Daisy Ball, Jackson, Mississippi, May 31, 1986. Daisy’s cheek was scratched in a roller skating fall.

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, on Avenue C near Ginsberg’s E. 10th Street apartment, New York City, fall 1973. Allen and I [Gordon] were working on Allen Verbatim then.

Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, New York City, New Year’s 1977.