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The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

Lamantia, Philip
Joron, Andrew
Caples, Garrett

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Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520324811
ISBN13: 9780520324817
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 22 2019
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.

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