Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia was born in San Francisco in 1927, the son of Sicilian immigrants. Largely self-taught, he started writing in elementary ...
Philip Lamantia
Poeta
«non per questo panico di idoli che imbrogliano il nostro tempo con falsi orologi angelici
ma per la colomba discesa noi riusciamo a vivere»
Philip Lamantia è stato un poeta e scrittore statunitense surrealista, cantore della Beat Generation. Wikipedia
Nascita: 23 ottobre 1927, San Francisco, California
Morte: 7 marzo 2005, North Beach, San Francisco, California
Partner: Nancy Peters
Lamantia released his debut collection, Erotic Poems (Bern Porter), in 1946. He was the first to read at the legendary Six Gallery Reading on October 7, 1955, ...
Philip Lamantia, whose poetry is “set like stars in snow,” became an enduring source of inspiration for a number of poets, myself included, in the 1960s.
21 mar 2005 · Poet Philip Lamantia dies at age 77 (M)
Sicilian-American Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia belonged to an Italian-language anarchist group in San Francisco in the 1940s and later became a leading ...
from SELECTED POEMS (1967) ... The Sun Is Bleeding over the Sky! ... Gork! ... What Is Not Strange? (pp. 235-236).
O Mad Love where untempered You remain, tunneling trains of art— Deflecting horizonless depthless Light on this voice—these sounds— A heart whose wails you ...