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Gary Snyder,  New York City, March 1991.  Immortalized as Japhy Ryder in Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, Allen early on wrote of him: Gary Snyder a bearded youth of 26, also from the Northwest, formerly a lumberjack and seaman, student of literature and anthropology who had lived with American Indians and taken the religious drug peyote with them, and who is now occupied in the study of Chinese and Japanese preparatory for the drunken silence of a Zen monastery in Japan.” Later writing: “he is one of the most virtuous, visionarily inspired as well as intellectually grounded American poets of this half century, a legend in his own lifetime..” (photo: Allen Ginsberg) #garysnyder #poet #zen #ecology #mountainsandriverswithoutend #poetrycommunity #instapoets #beatgeneration #dharmabums #jackkerouac (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOSuDnPJoO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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и по мере того, как рельеф начинает быть скучно-плоским,  по мере движения с запада на норд-ост,  ты рассматриваешь пшеничных полей полоски,  понимая: такое лето стоило тех полос,  о которых раньше думалось как о черных,  но в ретроспективе цвет выгорает в зольный.

нет, ты больше не будешь брошенным и никчемным, больше не будет муторно или больно. 

горы лечат все, потому что древней неврозов - санатории жмутся к ним толпами шулеров каждый вдох здесь резок, каждый закат здесь розов. уезжая, впервые думаешь, что - здоров.

мерно льется в уши сиропчик радиостанций,  вместо кромки столицы сперва проступает смог. 

это даже по-своему здорово, что остаться 

ты бы здесь не смог.

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Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, & Gary Snyder at the Berkeley Town Hall, March 18, 1956,  captured here by Walter Lehrman, friend of the poets who lived in Berkeley at the time. Walter’s small but significant collection currently resides at  Utah State University Logan, UT.  (photo Walter Lehrman / courtesy Utah State University).

The first celebrated reading of “Howl”, Part I only, at 6 Gallery, October 7, 1955, wasn’t taped,  so Prof. Tom Parkinson, member of Rexroth’s old Buddhist anarchist circle, organized another reading at Berkeley’s little Town Hall Theater festooned with Chinese ink brush orgy drawings by Robert LaVigne-- a couple hundred people crowded in, a mixture of artists from San Francisco, poetry aficionados, friends of Robert Duncan, ladies from the Potrero District, North Beach Bohemians, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cassady, Ann charters, and an amazing group of poets on stage including Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, with Kenneth Rexroth as Master of Ceremonies. Five months after the 6 Gallery reading I’d finished Parts II and III of “Howl”. This added a huge dimension, extending the power of the poem into the Moloch section and beyond. And this was the first time I’d read “Howl” all the way through aloud, beginning to end, as well as “Sunflower Sutra”, “A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley” and “America,” further experiments with the long breath’d verse line.

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Gary Snyder in his backyard hut, Berkeley, I’d met him that month referred by Kenneth Rexroth - he was studying Chinese, preparing for residence in Kyoto Zen monastery a year later, rode bicycle, prepared tea, showed me poems in springboard binder, I recognized W.C. Williams’ influence, like on mine. [Photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg Courtesy Allen Ginsberg Estate / Stanford University Libraries]

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“After all Jack I warned you back in 1945 if you keep going back to live with Memére you'll get wound up tighter & tighter in her apron strings till you won’t be able to leave & become a dry old man...” William S. Burroughs acting the André Gidian elder sophisticate lecturing the earnest All-American Thomas Wolfean youth Jack Kerouac who listens soberly dead-pan to the most intelligent man in America for a funny second’s charade in my living room, 206 East 7th Street, Apt. 16, one evening in New York Fall 1953.  (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg)

“ For those of you collectors out there, this print with this specific caption, (Allen varied each caption so that no caption was repeated exactly the same) is up for auction this week at the annual pba galleries auction. Auction closes on the 18th.  

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Gary Snyder, Prototype of Kerouac's “Dharma Bums” (1957) fictional hero leading the way sauntering by Alpine stream in Northern Cascades, Washington State's Glacier Peak Wilderness area, we went on light-day backpack to climb Glacier Peak tops, ice ax & crampons; Snyder was back from near-decade in Kyoto studying and practicing Zazen. My first mountain walk, August 1965. (Photo snapped by Martene Algiers, caption:  Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate / Getty Images)

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