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Bed of sphinxes / Philip Lamantia.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.A42 B43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: New & selected poems, 1943-1993
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books ; Monroe, OR : Distributor, Subterranean Co., 1997.
- Summary:
- Bed of Sphinxes offers a selection of poems from Philip Lamantia's books and from recent work, representing five decades of impressive poetic achievement, from his early years of association with Surrealists-in-exile through the Beat Generation era to the present. The poems range from visionary apocalypse to a lyrical fusion with nature.
- By turns nightmarish, erotic, hermetic, they create an astonishing world charged by Lamantia's energy and imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0872863204
- OCLC:
- 34996054
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