Allen Ginsberg poem paper dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: user
content: Rooney, Angela L.
label: maker
content: Poster Dress
notes: label: Description
content: Black print on off-white; cut scoop neckline, front and back; sleeveless, with deep cutout armholes; pullover; white velcro closure at left shoulder; A-line; dot print of huge light hand surrounded by mottled dark; hand takes up most of dress area; fingers in Buddha pose; cuff or other folded material around wrist of hand at dress bottom; palm printed with Allen Ginsberg poem; cut off around bottom.
label: Description
content: Poem text reads:
label: Description
content: Uptown N.Y.
label: Description
content: Yellow Budweiser signs over oaken bars,
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content: "I've seen everything" - the bartender giving me change of $10,
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content: I stared at him amiably eyes thru an obvious Adamic beard -
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content: with Montana musicians homeless in New York, teenage
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content: curly hair themselves - we sat at the antique booth & gossiped,
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content: Madame Grady's literary salon a curious value in New York -
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content: "If I had my way, I'd cut off your hair and send you to Vietnam" -
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content: "Bless you then" I replied to a hatted thin citizen hurrying to the barroom door
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content: upon wet dark Amsterdam Avenue decades later -
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content: "And if I couldn't do that I'd cut your throat" he snarled farewell,
label: Description
content: and "Bless you sir" I added as he went to his fate in the rain, dapper Irishman
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Angela Bayer Rooney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0010.001
label: accession number
content: 2005.0010
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0010.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress
label: Object Name
content: paper dress
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: length, center back: 82 3/4 in; 210.185 cm