The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
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The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
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The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

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The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States. First mentored by the San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, the teenage Lamantia also came to the attention of the French Surrealist leader AndrΓ© Breton, who, after reading Lamantia's youthful work, hailed him as a "voice that rises once in a hundred years." Later, Lamantia went "on the road" with Jack Kerouac and shared the stage with Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, where Ginsburg first read "Howl." Throughout his life, Lamantia sought to extend and renew the visionary tradition of Romanticism in a distinctly American vernacular, drawing on mystical lore and drug experience in the process. The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia
  8. Editorial Note
  9. Touch of the Marvelous (1943–1949)
  10. from Erotic Poems (1946)
  11. Poems 1943–1955
  12. from Tau (1955)
  13. Ekstasis (1959)
  14. from Narcotica (1959)
  15. Poems 1955–1962
  16. Destroyed Works Typescript (1948–1960)
  17. Destroyed Works (1962)
  18. Poems 1963–1964
  19. from Selected Poems (1967)
  20. Poems 1965–1970
  21. The Blood of the Air (1970)
  22. Poems 1970–1980
  23. Becoming Visible (1981)
  24. Poems 1981–1985
  25. Meadowlark West (1986)
  26. Poems 1986–1993
  27. from Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems (1997)
  28. from Symbolon (1998–2001)
  29. Selected Bibliography
  30. Index of Titles