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Philip Lamantia

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born

October 23, 1927 in San Francisco, CA, The United States

died

March 07, 2005

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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Philip Lamantia was an American poet and lecturer. Lamantia's visionary poems were ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic which explored the subconscious world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.

The poet was born in San Francisco to Sicilian immigrants and raised in that city's Excelsior neighborhood. His poetry was first published in the magazine View in 1943, when he was fifteen and in the final issue of the Surrealist magazine VVV the following year. In 1944 he dropped out of Balboa High School to pursue poetry in New York City. He returned to the Bay Area in 1945 and his first book, Erotic Poems, was published a year later.

Lamantia was one of the post World War II poets now sometimes referred to as the San Francisco Re...more

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Average rating: 4.30 · 138 ratings · 19 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Bed of Sphinxes: Selected Poems 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tau & Journey to the End by Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Blood of the Air 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	Becoming Visible 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Meadowlark West 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	Touch Of The Marvelous 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Destroyed Works 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1962	My rating:
	Erotic Poems 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	The Church In America: Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation To The Bishops, Priests And Deacons, Men And Women Religious...: The Way To Conversion, Communion, And Solidarity In America 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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