LAMANTIA, Philip Selected Poems San Fransisco, City Lights Boooks, 1967
Small 4vo. Red and White card wrappers; pp, [4] 7-100; extremely minor scuffing to upper left corner of front cover; tiny spotting on front cover; text block near fine as is overall near fine.
This selection of poems spans from 1943-1966. The Third Section Secret Freedoms is also published for the first time in this edition.
Discovered at a mere fifteen and published by View in 1943, Lamantia was subsequently embraced by Andre Breton and the Surrealist movement. He participated in the now historical 1955 Six Gallery reading, the date in which Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" made its debut.
Ferlinghetti, responsible for The Pocket Poets Series, remarked of Lamantia's talent, "Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.”.
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