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Poet Larry Eigner, National Poetry Week, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason San Francisco mid-October 1989.

Allen Ginsberg

Credit: Gift of Gary Davis
1989
Gelatin silver print
2013.145.29
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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