Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia, 1943-1966: Pocket Poets No. 20

by Philip Lamantia

The original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic.

"I am eager to do a book of yours," Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, Spain in 1966. "What about SELECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA?" The missive came at the right time, as Lamantia had recently reembraced the surrealism of his youth and sought to publish his current work alongside his key poems of the 1940s, when the then-15-year-old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872869342
• ISBN13: 9780872869349
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 120 Pages