Anne Waldman- Poetess, Part Of The Beat Generation, Boulder, Colorado

Date1988

Mediumchromogenic color print

Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds

Object numberPC1990.69.7

DescriptionA color photograph is of poet Anne Waldman with a written inscription and signature by Waldman underneath. Waldman is holding a book in one hand. Her other hand is open with her palm facing the viewer. She is standing in front of a shrine.

The inscription reads:

Both, both. Both the way you want it, and the way it is. Both staying and leaving. Both memory and no memory, both things that can tell lies and things that don't know how, both acquiescing and resisting, both familiar and strange. Both sheer and thick, both separated and together, walking and standing still. Both audible and silent, both flat and round. And you are never not linked up with how you perceive it all and how it really is, all the messages of the sublunary sphere at a time fueled by the iron fist of profit and gain, what makes it all run, a time which seems to be smiling nonetheless as if to say perhaps the moon's in the wrong corner of the sky, look up and see."
Helping The Dreamer

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