Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Andr 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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.
Title: The Collected Poems Of Philip Lamantia
Author(s): Lamantia Philip, Andrew Joron
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520324817
Pages: 504 Pages, 8 B-W Photographs
Publication Date: 10/22/2019
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets