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Allen with Andrei Vozensensky, Mexico City, August 1981, snapped by Gunther Grass with Allen’s camera. They were both in Mexico for the Poetry Festival in Morelia that month, which included Jorge Louis Borges, Gunther Grass, Vasko Popa, Octavio Paz among others.    (courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)  #AndreiVoznesensky #allenginsberg #mexico #poets #poetry #instapoets #literary #russianpoets #beatgeneration #günthergrass (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFnJvDB57v/?igshid=zy0b8lbdsrmm

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.” ― Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky, New York City, November, 1985, snapped by Allen Ginsberg. He was born 80 years ago this month in Leningrad. Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he lived the rest of his time in the United States. Though he passed away at the young age of 55, he was extraordinarily prolific, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature not long after this photo was taken, and was the US Poet Laureate for 1991. #josephbrodsky #allenginsberg #writers #russianwriters #poetry #russianpoets (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtOl-ShxHp/?igshid=walqbn6dez8y

Allen with Andrei Vozensensky, Mexico City, August 1981, snapped by their host. (courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #AndreiVoznesensky #allenginsberg #mexico #poets #poetry #instapoets #literary #russianpoets #beatgeneration (at Campanario Catedral Metropoliana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B16PvZChcTQ/?igshid=1bmv02gok9lbh

Remembering Yevtuschenko on his birthday. “Yevgeny Yevtuschenko, his night suppertable loaded with cabbage soup, Vodka, bread, pickled mushrooms, conversation in his dascha, Peredelkino an hour’s drive out of Moscow, December 1985. My interpreter with glasses listening, had said (as Russian yuppie journalist), “I know what buttons to push, who to telephone, I can get along with this system, “ in the car on the way out. “ (caption and photo: Allen Ginsberg / Courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #yevtushenko #yevgenyyevtushenko #russianpoets #russia #allenginsberg #poetry #poetrycommunity (at Peredelkino, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ExscYBBw7/?igshid=7dqdjb7n4wv0

Andrei Voznesensky and Allen, Times Square photo booth, November 1971.  (Courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)  #AndreiVoznesensky #allenginsberg #poetry #poets #poetsofinstagram #russianpoets #russianpoetry #timessquare #newyorkcity (at Times Square, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3fxQCBnOq/?igshid=3lheedg48prp

"The Red-Haired Man," by Daniil Ivanovich Kharms