The collected poems of Philip Lamantia / edited by Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, and Nancy Joyce Peters ; foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005.

Contributor:

Caples, Garrett T.

Joron, Andrew.

Peters, Nancy J. (Nancy Joyce)

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia

Editorial Note

Touch of the Marvelous (1943- 1949)

From Erotic Poems (1946)

Poems 1943-1955

From Tau (1955)

Ekstasis (1959)

From Narcotica (1959)

Poems 1955-1962

Destroyed Works Typescript (1948-1960)

Destroyed Works (1962)

Poems 1963-1964

From Selected Poems (1967)

Poems 1965-1970

The Blood of the Air (1970)

Poems 1970-1980

Becoming Visible (1981)

Poems 1981-1985

Meadowlark West (1986)

Poems 1986-1993

From Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems (1997)

From Symbolon (1998- 2001)

Selected Bibliography

Index of Titles

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index of titles and first lines.

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ISBN:

9780520324817

0520324811

9780520954892

0520954890

OCLC:

852655673