Robert Frank, his studio in old red-brick house on run-down Bleecker Street near Bowery, I’d asked him to take formal portrait for first Collected Poems 1947-1980 dust-jacket back. Though he’d stopped most still-camera work decades before, he ruminated, “Well, I guess it’s continuing a project we started long ago.” I upheld my six earlier City Lights Pocket Poets books bound together with elastic string, Peter stood behind me Robert’s Polaroid 195 gives big negative… Manhattan, January 1984.
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