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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia; Editorial Note; Touch of the Marvelous (1943-1949); The Touch of the Marvelous; Plumage of Recognition; The Islands of Africa; I Am Coming; Apparition of Charles Baudelaire; The Ruins; By the Curtain of Architecture; There Are Many Pathways to the Garden; Automatic World; Hermetic Bird; Moments of Exile; Beneath this bed the caverns gather me like water; I am a criminal when your body is bare upon the universe; A Civil World; Invisible; The Enormous Window; Mirror and Heart |
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Infernal LandscapeA Winter Day; Awakened from Sleep; The Diabolic Condition; Celestial Estrangement; Submarine Languor; You and I Have Nothing to Fear; The Image of Ardor; To You Henry Miller of the Orchestra the Mirror the Revolver and of the Stars of Stars; from Erotic Poems (1946); Upon the earth eyes opened in wonder; You flee into a corridor of stars; Scenario; From Dark Illusion to Love's Reality; I open for you an ancient book; Nativity of Love; Autumn Poems; Answer from a Place of Waiting; I am forlorn; Sorrow; Night Vision; Unable to move and hardly breathing; Spring's Entry |
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Two Worlds-1946A Simple Answer to the Enemy; Poems 1943-1955; Ages in the Wind; Symbols; Another Autumn Coming; The New Year; Revelations of a New Order; Break of Day; This Room Is My Cosmos; Descent; Inside the Journey; Animal Snared in His Revery; Elementals; Beneath occidental peripheries; from Tau (1955); To see this evil from its core; The Owl; Shot into the Sun; Going Forth by Day; Ground grade guard the crucible; Out of crystal beginnings; In a garden that isn't, but will be; Flame gates open to water gongs; She sped to me a winter word; To the Music; Question |
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To the flat lands by the hills of Suum Nar18 beings and The Other; Broken language hisses; Ekstasis (1959); Preface; Christ; Fragments from an Aeroplane; Interior Suck of the Night; Iguana iguana; Les Langueurs Allongées; Sheri; What gift to bring; Ball; Mysterium Mysticus Ecclesia; Dead Smoke; Deirdre; In a grove; Confirmation; John Hoffman; Ah Blessed Virgin Mary; Man is in pain; As some light fell; The Poor Paradoxes; Scorpion Bite; Our Lady of the Snow; The New Evil; Boobus; Put down; McClure's Favorite; Observatory; What made tarot cards and fleurs de lis; Terror Conduction; Intersection |
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It's summer's moment in autumn's hourIt was a time I didn't see the beast; Binoculars; from Narcotica (1959); I Demand Extinction of Laws Prohibiting Narcotic Drugs!; Bones; Opium Cocaine Hemp; Opium, Put Down of Laws against Opium!; Memoria; Poems 1955-1962; Scenes; 1. Füd at Foster's; 2. Immediate Life; For Real; Rest in Peace; Inscription for the Vanishing Republic; Orphic Poem; The Call; Politics Poem; Lava; That I burned by the screech owl castle in Berkeley Hills; New York Blank Poem New York; Cool Apocalypse; Apocalypses; Blank Poem for Poe; Visions; The marvelous unveils its face |
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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 |
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Print version record |
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American poetry.
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American literature.
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American literature.
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American poetry.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005.
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| ISBN |
1299718167 |
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9781299718166 |
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