The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
Author: Philip Lamantia
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0520324811

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 André 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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.

The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
Author: Philip Lamantia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0520269721

The first collected edition of this poet's work, including poems that have been out of print for more than forty years.

Preserving Fire

Preserving Fire
Author: Philip Lamantia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781940696706

"A selection of prose writing from American poet Philip Lamantia (1927-2005), edited by poet Garrett Caples"--

Refractive Africa

Refractive Africa
Author: Will Alexander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811230287

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of lexical magic” (Philip Lamantia) “The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—two writers whose luminous art suffered “colonial wrath through refraction.” A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as “charged aural colony” and “primal interconnection,” a “subliminal psychic force” with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander’s improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance—incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery.

The Blank Page

The Blank Page
Author: Iván Argüelles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781952386084

New poems.

Meadowlark West

Meadowlark West
Author: Philip Lamantia
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780872861763

Meadowlark West is the final complete collection of poetry written by legendary surrealist and beat-era author, Philip Lamantia (1927-2005). It is, in many ways, his masterpiece...

Destroyed Works

Destroyed Works
Author: Philip Lamantia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1962
Genre: Assemblage (Art)
ISBN:

Eyes to See Otherwise

Eyes to See Otherwise
Author: Homero Aridjis
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811215091

"New Directions continues its public service to literature with this lively introduction to contemporary Mexican poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis."--"Publishers Weekly."

San Francisco Beat

San Francisco Beat
Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780872863798

"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.