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. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ...

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 Surrealist magazine View when he was fifteen. In 1943 he dropped out of Balboa High School to pursue poetry in New York City.^[1] He later became involved with the San Francisco Beat Generation poets and The Surrealist Movement in the United States. He was on the bill at San Francisco's Six Gallery on October 7, 1955, when poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem Howl for the first time. At this event Lamantia chose to read the poems of John Hoffman, a friend who had recently died. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Excelsior District in San Francisco is the area along Mission Street, south of Interstate 280 and north of Geneva Avenue. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... View was an American literary and art magazine published from 1940 to 1947 by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford, and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. ... Balboa High School (San Francisco) Balboa High School is an American public high school located in the Excelsior District of San Francisco, California. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “Beats” redirects here. ... The Surrealist Movement in the United States was started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including many of its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities. ... The Six Gallery reading (also known as Gallery Six reading or Six Angels on the Same Performance) was a poetry jamming, which occured in the Six Gallery of San Francisco on October 13, 1955. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (281st in leap years). ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books This article is about the poem by Allen Ginsberg. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

Nancy Peters, his wife and literary editor, said about him, "He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle - a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed."

The poet spent time with native peoples in the United States and Mexico in the 1950s, participating in the peyote-eating rituals of the Washoe Indians of Nevada. In later life, he embraced Catholicism, the religion of his childhood, and wrote many poems on Catholic themes. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Washoe (chimpanzee) Washoe County, Nevada Washoe Native American tribe Washoe language Note that in the second and third reference, the alternative spelling Washo appears to be equally valid. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Works

• Erotic Poems (1946)
• Ekstasis (1959)
• Narcotica (1959)
• Destroyed Works (1962)
• Touch of the Marvelous (1966)
• Selected Poems 1943-1966 (1967)
• Blood of the Air (1970)
• Touch of the Marvelous -- A New Edition (1974)
• Becoming Visible (1981)
• Meadowlark West (1986)
• Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems, 1943-1993 (1997)

References

• Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk)

1. ^ Hamlin, Jesse. "Philip Lamantia -- S.F. Surrealist poet / Visionary verse of literary prodigy influenced Beats", San Francisco Chronicle, 2005-03-11. Retrieved on 2007-04-11. 

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External links

• Obituary by Marcus Williamson in The Independent (UK)
• Philip Lamantia on the Beat Page