#alan ansen

[fuckyeahbeatgeneration]

“Peter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, myself white-pants earnest smoking, Alan Ansen resolute visiting from Venice to help type new apocalyptic cut-up material overflow from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso’d been gambling at casino with Francis Bacon, Corso here sunglassed & Minox’d, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronic & stroboscope alpha-rhythm & Dream Machine experiments with Bill & Brion Gysin then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright mid-day light seated on ground, company assembled outside Burroughs’ French-door’d room on garden, my Kodak-Retina in young Michael Portman’s hands, Villa Muniria, 1 Calle Magellanes, Tangier July 1961." (photo and caption by Allen Ginsberg)

[beatdom]

The Beats in Greece

As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that Greece was of such interest to the Beats. Nearly three thousand years after Homer wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey, Ancient Greek civilization provided an irresistible allure for some of the poets and writers of the Beat Generation. William S. Burroughs …

[ginzyblog]

Friday's Weekly Round-Up - Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ansen - Burroughs and the Mugwump, Ginsberg's new book

http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/fridays-weekly-round-up-205.html

[cristopherworthland]

Peter Orlovsky, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat, myself (Allen Ginsberg) white pants, Alan Ansen resolute visiting from Vanish to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville, Paul Bowles squinting in bright mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria garden, my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier Maroc July 1961.