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Philip Lamantia was born on 23 October, 1927 in San Francisco, U.S., is an American poet. Discover Philip Lamantia's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Poet, writer, lecturer
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 23 October, 1927
Birthday 23 October
Birthplace San Francisco, U.S.
Date of death 2005
Died Place New York, U.S.
Nationality American

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1927

Philip Lamantia (October 23, 1927 – March 7, 2005) was an American poet, writer and lecturer.

His poetry incorporated stylistic experimentation and transgressive themes, and has been regarded as surrealist and visionary, contributing to the literature of the Beat Generation.

Lamantia was born in San Francisco to Sicilian immigrants and was raised in the city's Excelsior District neighborhood.

1943

His poetry was first published in View magazine in 1943 when he was fifteen, and his poetry appeared in the final issue of the Surrealist magazine VVV the following year.

He dropped out of Balboa High School to pursue poetry in New York City, and appeared the same year in American filmmaker Maya Deren's At Land.

At just sixteen, he was hailed by Andre Breton as "a voice that rises once in a hundred years."

1945

He returned to the Bay Area in 1945, and his first book, Erotic Poems, was published a year later.

Lamantia was one of the post-World War II poets now sometimes referred to as the San Francisco Renaissance, and later became involved with the San Francisco Beat Generation poets and the Surrealist Movement in the United States.

1950

In the 1950s, Lamantia wrote multiple political texts, including a polemical prose text criticizing federal prohibitions of drugs.

He additionally re-embraced Catholicism in the later half of his life, and his poetry onward began to explore Catholic themes.

American writer Nancy Peters, who was Lamantia's wife and literary editor, commented that "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."

1955

He was on the bill at San Francisco's Six Gallery on October 7, 1955 where 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.

Lamantia was also known for his journeys with native peoples in the United States and Mexico, participating in the peyote-eating rituals of the Washo Indians of Nevada which often inspired his poems.