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Fast Speaking Woman Chants and Essays
Bed of Sphinxes
New and Selected Poems 1943-1993
By Philip Lamantia
ISBN: 0-87286-320-4
Paperback Original, 141pp
$12.95



Bed of Sphinxes offers a selection of poems from Philip Lamantia's books and from recent work, representing five decades of impressive poetic achievement, from his early years of association with surrealists-in-exile through the Beat Generation era to the present. The poems range from visionary apocalypse to a lyrical fusion with nature.

By turns nightmarish, erotic, hermetic, they create an astonishing world charged by Lamantia's energy and imagination.

    "A man in command of a wild imagination...with a particular place in the ranks of t he most important moderns." -Library Journal

    "...great drive and excitement." -Kenneth Rexroth

    "An American original, soothsayer even as Poe...native companion and teacher to myself." -Allen Ginsberg

    "...things are caught in hallucinatory moments of attention, as if noticed for the first time...reading (the poems) has continually this jamis vu unexpectedness and splendor." -Tom Clark




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