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Lamantia, Philip

 
9780520269729: The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
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ISBN 10: 0520269721 ISBN 13: 9780520269729
Verlag: University of California Press, 2013

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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 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 The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction.

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Garrett Caples is a poet and editor for City Lights Books and the editor of the American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight. Andrew Joron is an award-winning surrealist poet and translator. Nancy Joyce Peters is the co-owner of City Lights Books; for much of its history, she served as its executive director and publisher, until her retirement in 2008. She is co-author, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of Literary San Francisco and has edited countless books for City Lights.

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“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

"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

"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

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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

"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

"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

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The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

By Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, Nancy Joyce Peters

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Copyright © 2013 The Regents of the University of California
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-520-26972-9

Contents

Foreword Lawrence Ferlinghetti............................................xix
Acknowledgments............................................................xxi
High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia............................xxiii
Editorial Note.............................................................lxv
TOUCH OF THE MARVELOUS (1943-1949).........................................
from EROTIC POEMS (1946)...................................................
POEMS 1943-1955............................................................
from TAU (1955)............................................................
EKSTASIS (1959)............................................................
from NARCOTICA (1959)......................................................
POEMS 1955-1962............................................................
DESTROYED WORKS TYPESCRIPT (1948-1960).....................................
DESTROYED WORKS (1962).....................................................
HYPODERMIC LIGHT...........................................................
MANTIC NOTEBOOK............................................................
STILL POEMS................................................................
SPANSULE...................................................................
POEMS 1963-1964............................................................
from SELECTED POEMS (1967).................................................
POEMS 1965-1970............................................................
THE BLOOD OF THE AIR (1970)................................................
THE LIBRAN AGE.............................................................
FLAMING TEETH..............................................................
POEMS 1970-1980............................................................
BECOMING VISIBLE (1981)....................................................
POEMS 1981-1985............................................................
MEADOWLARK WEST (1986).....................................................
FROM NO CLOSURE 393........................................................
from BED OF SPHINXES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (1997)........................
from SYMBOLON (1998-2001)..................................................
Selected Bibliography Steven Fama.........................................431
Index of Titles............................................................433


CHAPTER 1

TOUCH OF THE MARVELOUS

1943-1949


    The Touch of the Marvelous

    The mermaids have come to the desert
    they are setting up a boudoir next to the camel
    who lies at their feet of roses

    A wall of alabaster is drawn over our heads
    by four rainbow men
    whose naked figures give off a light
    that slowly wriggles upon the sands

    I am touched by the marvelous
    as the mermaids' nimble fingers
    go through my hair
    that has come down forever from my head
    to cover my body
    the savage fruit of lunacy

    Behold the boudoir is flying away
    and I am holding onto the leg of the lovely one
    called beneath the sea
    BIANCA
    She is turning
    with the charm of a bird
    into two giant lips
    and I am now falling into the goblet of suicide

    She is the angelic doll turned black
    she is the child of broken elevators
    she is the curtain of holes
    that you never want to throw away

    she is the first woman and first man
    and I am lost in the search to have her

    I am hungry for the secrets of the sadistic fish
    I am plunging into the sea

    I am looking for the region
    where the smoke of your hair is thick
    where you are again climbing over the white wall
    where your eardrums play music
    to the cat that crawls in my eyes
    I am recalling memories of you bianca

    I am looking beyond the hour and the day
    to find you bianca


    Plumage of Recognition

    A soul drenched in the milk of marble
    goes through the floor of an evening
    that rides lost on a naked virgin
    It gains power over the dull man:
    it is a soul sucked by lepers

    What liquid hour shall rivet
    its song on my cat
    with the neck of all space?

    Morning and I may lose
    the terrible coat of ill feeling
    that has curled me into a chained dragon
    the flower bursting with eyelids

    Ah! a fever the skeleton of arson!
    comes to rest on the citadel of the immortals;
    the diadem flickers and dies away
    while running toward the vat of salted babies

    They are creeping upon the wall my dagger
    they are bulging with cradles
    the era of the lunatic birds has arrived!
    They have come to rape the town
    infested with iron-blood clerks
    and to send the hairless priests
    to the pool of deadly anchors

    Parades are the enchantment of a brain
    piled-up like the water of an ocean
    I enjoy the creation of a human table
    to be in the center of the delirious crowd
    There are birds perched on my...

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520269721
ISBN 13 
9780520269729
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
437
Herausgeber
Caples Garrett, Peters Nancy Joyce, Joron Andrew
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