Image / Poet Allen Ginsberg with broken leg, laying on floor meditating, 1973

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Title: Poet Allen Ginsberg with broken leg, laying on floor meditating, 1973
Contributor: Barnard, Tony
Date Created and/or Issued: May 13, 1973
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4038
Description: UNCONVENTIONAL POSITION--Broken leg forces poet Allen Ginsberg to assume prone position during his hour of daily meditation. Until it heals a pillow and floor supplant the lotus position.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b715_274629
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lifestyle
People
Arts
Poets, American--20th century
Beat generation
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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