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	[Deathwatch] Philip Lamantia, poet, 77
		Philip Lamantia, the blazing San Francisco poet whose embrace of Surrealism and the free flow of the imagination had a major influence on the Beats and many other American poets, died Monday of heart failure at his North Beach apartment.
		Lamantia was a widely read, largely self-taught literary prodigy whose visionary poems -- ecstatic, terror-filled, erotic -- explored the subconscious world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.
		Lamantia worked as a boy in the old produce market on the Embarcadero, where his Sicilian-born father was a produce broker.
	www.slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01672.html (1036 words)

	Amazon.de: Bed of Sphinxes: Selected Poems: English Books: Philip Lamantia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Philip Lamantia is to traditional poetry as Pegasus is to the plow-horse.
		Lamantia does not, for example, tell us about an ecstatic experience, but rather gives a poem that was born from it.
		Lamantia's poetry seeks revolution: a world where desire, love, the wild, birds, and the ancient reign; a world where, as Lautreamont said, "poetry is made by all." But there is also an apocalyptic, nightmarish edge to some of the poems; Lamantia is not a poet whose work can be easily categorized.
	www.amazon.de /Bed-Sphinxes-Selected-Philip-Lamantia/dp/0872863204 (968 words)

	Philip Lamantia, at 77; helped launch poetry's Beat generation - The Boston Globe
		Lamantia was a high school student and one of the youngest published poets of his generation.
		Lamantia was born in San Francisco, the son of Sicilian immigrants.
		Lamantia and four other poets gave a reading at the Sixth Gallery in San Francisco that is considered the launch of the Beat generation.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/03/19/philip_lamantia_at_77_helped_launch_poetrys_beat_generation?mode=PF (641 words)

	Philip Lamantia and Andre Breton, by Garrett Caples
		Philip Lamantia and Andre Breton, by Garrett Caples
		Lamantia has never published a description of his dinner with André Breton and, being 60 years and a further conversation removed, I can’t hope to reproduce here the substance of their dialogue.
		Given Lamantia’s considerable achievements subsequent to their brief personal contact, the indication that he sees Breton even as he reviews his own intellectual interests is the most profound homage he could pay to the founder and chief theoretician of the surrealist movement.
	www.emilydickinson.org /titanic/material/three/caples.html (4734 words)

	Obituary: Philip Lamantia Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		PHILIP LAMANTIA was a poet whom Andre Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, described as "a voice that rises once in a hundred years".
		Lamantia's first volume of poetry, Erotic Poems, was published in 1946 by Bern Porter, a disillusioned nuclear physicist who had previously worked on the Manhattan Project and who turned to writing and publishing poetry.
		Lamantia's poetry was published in the UK in 1969 as part of the Penguin Modern Poets series, sharing a volume with Charles Bukowski and Harold Norse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200503/ai_n12941000 (863 words)

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		It was meant to be a puff piece for a general audience, but Philip took it quite seriously as an opportunity to discuss his spiritual life and its relation to surrealism and poetry.
		This is not to discount the importance of Philip’s association with the “Beats,” a term he rejects as a media creation, though we might say his exposure to surrealism and his role in SF’s late ‘40s anarchist scene was well matched to his friends’ rebellion against the repressive society America fostered after World War II.
		Philip clearly does what he wants when he feels the time is right.
	www.angelfire.com /poetry/thepixelplus/nhlamantia.html (1841 words)

	Philip LAMANTIA
		Even then, in his forties, Lamantia was something of a legend—due partly to his personal associations with famous French Surrealists and his reclusive history, but mainly for his soaring yet searing Surrealist poetry which had come to the attention of some with the publication of his first book at the precocious age of nineteen.
		Lamantia was an encyclopedic source, in fact a font of things mythic, mystic, historical, and literary.
		In April of 1999, Philip Lamantia and I were reunited in a conversation that, in many ways, began where it had left off twenty-five years before, with my asking simple questions and Philip responding like a flowing font of free-associative discourse.
	www.milkmag.org /LAMANTIA.html (3206 words)

	Rob Lee - Beat Generation & North Beach San Francisco photographs
		Philip sometimes depended on friends for a place to live, as he rarely had a steady income.
		Philip was living at the Hartford Street Zen Center and its next door AIDS hospice, Maitri.
		Philip became abbot of the temple nine days after these pictures were taken.
	www.emptymirrorbooks.com /lee.html (1531 words)

	LitKicks: Philip Lamantia
		by Levi Asher (brooklyn) Sep 20, 2001 10:50 AM Philip Lamantia was born on October 23, 1927 in San Francisco, where as a teenager he discovered Surrealism and began to write poetry.
		Lamantia was first up to read at the Six Gallery poetry reading in 1955.
		Philip Lamantia died of heart failure on March 7, 2005.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=PhilipLamantia (442 words)

	Franklin Rosemont, "Philip Lamantia's Surrealist Poetry as Revolutionary Praxis" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Philip during the time he went to church said he was still a surrealist (once a surrealist, always a surrealist), but his own kind of surrealist.
		Philip was -- as he was most all of his life -- a manic depressive, but he was most definitely not during the couple years he attended church incompetent, irrational, deluded, or anything close to any of those.
		Philip's death causes grief to those who knew him or loved his poetry, and the most kind human response to such circumstances -- in fact the most kind human response to any circumstance -- is love and understanding and respect.
	info.interactivist.net /comments.pl?sid=4259&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=3&mode=nested&tid=22&cid=2044 (4322 words)

	Philip Lamantia; path to poetic extremes began in San Francisco \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Philip Lamantia, the rapturous San Francisco poet who embraced Surrealism and later associated himself with the West Coast Beat community, died March 7 at his apartment in San Francisco.
		"Philip Lamantia's poems are about rapture as a condition," the poet Tom Clark wrote in a review of Mr.
		Lamantia grew disillusioned with the New York scene and returned to San Francisco.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050505/news_1m5lamantia.html (568 words)

	POETICS archives -- March 2005 (#285)
		Lamantia was a > widely read, largely self-taught literary prodigy whose visionary > poems -- ecstatic, terror-filled, erotic -- explored the subconscious > world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.
		Lamantia was > associated on the pre-Beat San Francisco poetry scene of the late > 1940s and early '50s).
		Lamantia worked as a > boy in the old produce market on the Embarcadero, where his > Sicilian-born father was a produce broker.
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0503&L=poetics&D=0&O=D&P=30852 (1213 words)

	Insomniacathon On-Line! - Reading Room - Philip Lamantia Remembered -
		Lamantia had been one of the featured poets, along with Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder, with Kenneth Rexroth as the MC, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco Oct 7 1955, which is where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl.
		Philip and I had our final reunion in the Spring 2001, when I was in San Francisco, performing for the showing of the original scroll for On the Road.
		Philip recalled how after I played them some music, and after they read some poems with music, Jack made a second series of calls 1 a.m.
	www.insomniacathon.org /rrIPLTDA01.html (1270 words)

	San Francisco Faith \| September 2005 \| Letters
		Lamantia says, but that he belonged to an authoritarian cult that "had historical associations with Nazism." The article also says that Lamantia struggled with the anti-Semitic nature of the cult, on account of which he abandoned it.
		Lamantia actually makes a far more serious and damaging allegation -- that her husband was enamored of dissident Catholics.
		Lamantia tells us her husband played fast and loose with his religion.
	www.sffaith.com /ed/letters/2005letters/0509lett.htm (1388 words)

	Elective Affinities: Philip Lamantia and Laurence Weisberg
		For in its pursuit the imagination of desire will come to embody the give and take we expect from those we love, admire, doubt and despair of; those we sustain in an intimacy that clarifies the time we live.
		Philip Lamantia and Laurence Weisberg shared such a friendship.
		That I am left with the notion that, like all too many of us, their avoiding certain subjects, including religion, did not work to their advantage, taking its toll in their later years, is something, again, I have little reason to doubt but no way to prove.
	www.milkmag.org /lamantia-weisberg.html (584 words)

	The Beat Page - Philip Lamantia
		Philip Lamantia was born in San Francisco on October 23, 1927, the son of Sicilian immigrants.
		Lamantia's poems were published in 1943 by Andre Breton as VVV.
		Lamantia is the only American poet of his generation to embrace fully the discoveries of Surrealism, and is a contributing editor of Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion.
	www.rooknet.com /beatpage/writers/lamantia.html (429 words)

	San Francisco Faith \| June 2005 \| A Mystic and Tormented Believer , by Stephen Schwartz
		As I described Philip Lamantia in the 1998 Faith article, "raised in the Italian culture of San Francisco, where he was exposed to, but not taught, traditional Catholicism, Lamantia burst into American literature with a unique series of surreal, transcendental poems.
		In general, Lamantia was a traditional, mystical Catholic who emphasized the power of the Lord and the liberation offered through the Gospels, rather than the liberal political excitements favored by many professed Catholics today.
		Lamantia was a poet of God and the devil, who sank into despair when he found himself torn between them.
	www.sffaith.com /ed/articles/2005/0506ss.htm (2012 words)

	Philip Lamantia
		Philip Lamantia, the blazing San Francisco poet whose embrace of
		Lamantia in 1978 and edited some of his books for City Lights.
		I met Philip Lamantia is the apartment of Anne Murphy on Kearney Street,
	www.bookforumz.com /Philip-Lamantia-ftopict33529.html (816 words)

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		Philip Lamantia was born in San Francisco, the son of Sicilian immigrants.
		Philip Lamantia, an American Surrealist poet who helped launch poetry's Beat generation in San Francisco, has died.
		In October 1955, Lamantia and four other poets gave a reading at the Sixth Gallery in San Francisco that is considered the launch of the Beat generation.
	www.italystl.com /ra/2015.htm (845 words)

	Larry Keenan - photos of George Herms, Philip Lamantia, & David Meltzer, San Francisco, 1999
		Philip Lamantia was one of the first two Beat poets I read.
		Beat assemblage artist George Herms is talking to Philip Lamantia about the piece on the wall.
		The sculpture is about Lamantia and it is dedicated to him.
	www.emptymirrorbooks.com /keenan/m1999-2.html (214 words)

	Erik's Rants and Recipes: Philip Lamantia 1927 - 2005
		Of course Philip always held himself at arm's length from the title "Beat Poet." If he was proud of literary ties, it was his ties to Andre Breton and the surrealists.
		Philip, as noted in the Chronicle obit, was a great conversationalist.
		A mutual friend once described Philip as a "temporal vampire," telling me, "we were up til three am, and I had to teach today!" That is the way it was.
	www.pinkmochi.com /eriksrant/archives/000806.html (1376 words)

	Philip Lamantia Summary
		The only American poet of his generation to fully embrace the discoveries of surrealism, Philip Lamantia has always gone against the grain, diverging from this century's dominant poetic expression, which has, with few exceptions, been realist and positiv...
		Philip Lamantia(October 23, 1927- March 7, 2005) was a United States poet and lecturer.
		Lamantia's visionary poems- ecstatic, terror-filled, erotic- explored the subconscious world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.
	www.bookrags.com /Philip_Lamantia (113 words)

	Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine
		Interestingly, and adding to the complexity: the violence of Lamantia’s language is often at some distance from the images of the poet on the covers of his early books: handsome, but gentle.
		Philip Lamantia was one of the readers at the famous Six Gallery event-the event at which Allen Ginsberg first read "Howl"-on October 7, 1955.
		Birds have always been important inhabitants of Lamantia’s poems, as they are in many poems of "the Romantic Movement," and one poem in Meadowlark West refers explicitly to "the Dawn-Bringer Meadowlark." "Bird" is of course also the name by which Charlie Parker was known, and that is relevant here as well.
	www.poetrybay.com /Summer2005/Foley2.htm (3364 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - POETRY
		According to Ferlinghetti, Philip was “writing stream of consciousness Surrealist poetry, and he had a huge influence on Allen Ginsberg.
		It is during the fifties that Lamantia’s poetry becomes anti-literary as well as subverts the conventional strain of surrealist syntax.
		Philip talked for hours, “in a way humming through crystals of light most unexpected.” It all made sense and it was all exalted, passionate, funny, and intense.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /poetry/april05/lamantia.html (1399 words)

	Poetry Flash: Riding the Marvelous#282
		Many highly creative and accomplished writers, composers, and artists function essentially within the rational world, without losing acess to their psychic "underground." Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of thought, but they must contend with unusually tumultuous and unpredictable emotions as well.
		Philip Lamantia was one of the readers at the famous Six Gallery event---the event at which Allen Ginsberg first read "Howl"---on October 7, 1955.
		One is not surprised to discover that Allen Ginsberg referred to Lamantia as his "teacher." The religious impulse behind these poems---their thrust towards direct experience of deity---is as clear as day.
	www.poetryflash.org /archive.282.foley.html (3098 words)

	Bancroftiana, Number 118 Spring 2001: The Philip Whalen Archive
		The Bancroft Library has acquired the archive of the poet Philip Whalen, who was on the stage with Allen Ginsberg at the Six Gallery in San Francisco that September night in 1955 when the public first heard the poem "Howl" read aloud, the night the Beat Generation was launched.
		Given the way this gallery converted a mechanical and consumerist space into a venue for art, poetry and drama, it was an appropriate launching pad for the Beats, all of whom, like prophets in their own land, critiqued America's mechanistic, materialistic, consumerist culture as a kind of cannibal Moloch, devouring its own young.
		Lamantia's work faded from public view fairly quickly, but the other poets have gone on to become something that far transcends the notoriety of their early days.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /events/bancroftiana/118/whalenarch.html (1317 words)

	Amazon.com: "Philip Lamantia": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Francisco poet Philip Lamantia climbed up the six flights of stairs to my tiny apartment on Christopher Street, which was always open to guests,...
		Philip Lamantia, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, and others who made-up the Bay Area literary scene.
		Phil Lamantia: Philip Lamantia (1927-), American Surrealist poet: served as an assistant editor of View magazine.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Philip-Lamantia (488 words)

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