Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Caples, Garrett T.
• Joron, Andrew
• Peters, Nancy J. (Nancy Joyce)

Description

lxvi, 437 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Philip Lamantia's 'Collected Poetry' is beyond scale, weight, or measure. There is no proportion in this intertwining of soul-buildings. These are the inexorable and ineffable projects of an inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest, kisses, prayers, blessings and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence and farthest travel. The reader's excitement is carried by Lamantia's spiritual and physical beat. This surreal and mantic project drives farther than anything before or after. Breathtaking! These works are of synesthetic beauty to the eye, the ear, and the open interior of the heart. They come from the peaks and herbs and forests where the meadowlark speaks." --Michael McClure<p> "Philip Lamantia's poems are about rapture as a condition. They are spiritual and erotic at the same time. Bright and dark, the enclosed polarities of devotion. St. Teresa and Rimbaud."--Tom Clark, author of Light & Shade: New and Selected Poems</p><p> "The blade-flash of Lamantia's word lode strikes the owl stone, arcs to inspire. A quotidian American surrealism? Sudden array of Lemmy Cautions dashing through a hundred identical hotel doors. Visions for sure. Quick! Akhamatova in Lemuria!" --Clark Coolidge.

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

Poems

Subject

• American poetry
• Poetry

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Touch of the marvelous (1943-1949) -- Erotic poems (1946) -- Poems 1943-1955 -- 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) -- 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).

ISBN

• 9780520269729 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520269721 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012050020

OCLC

• 818734499
• SCSB-11426253

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library