The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : 9780520324817
ISBN-13 : 0520324811
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia by : Philip Lamantia

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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.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 :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : 9780520269729
ISBN-13 : 0520269721
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia by : Philip Lamantia

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
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1940696704
ISBN-13 : 9781940696706
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Preserving Fire by : Philip Lamantia

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

Touch of the Marvelous

Touch of the Marvelous
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Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106002177357
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Touch of the Marvelous by : Philip Lamantia

Refractive Africa

Refractive Africa
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9780811230285
ISBN-13 : 0811230287
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Refractive Africa by : Will Alexander

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
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Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 195238608X
ISBN-13 : 9781952386084
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis The Blank Page by : Iván Argüelles

New poems.

Meadowlark West

Meadowlark West
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Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 0872861767
ISBN-13 : 9780872861763
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Meadowlark West by : Philip Lamantia

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...

Eyes to See Otherwise

Eyes to See Otherwise
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0811215091
ISBN-13 : 9780811215091
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Eyes to See Otherwise by : Homero Aridjis

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

Destroyed Works

Destroyed Works
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015005563948
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Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Destroyed Works by : Philip Lamantia

San Francisco Beat

San Francisco Beat
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Publisher : City Lights Books
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0872863794
ISBN-13 : 9780872863798
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis San Francisco Beat by : David Meltzer

"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.