SF Weekly Reviews The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia June 14, 2013: In this latest installment of SF Weekly's Read Local column, Alexis Coe reviews The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, forthcoming from UC Press. Check it out! In the introduction to The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, Lawrence Ferlinghetti remembers Lamantia's voice as "the most distinctive poetic sound I had ever heard." Much of his [...] by Harriet Staff

Hambone: Destination Out April 17, 2013: "Hambone, Hambone, where you been? / Around the world and I'm goin' again." —Juba dance song In twenty-first-century culture, what's virtual is what's real. A literary magazine or publisher that lacks a website runs the danger of becoming invisible to readers, most of whom have forsaken print for digital media. Readers of poetry are no [...] by Andrew Joron

Poetry as Oracular Radio April 8, 2013: http://youtu.be/Dn8m6GwC-jA To send or receive? That is the question. Watching Cocteau's Orpheus for the umpteenth time the other night, I was impressed, during the scene in which Orpheus is listening to the car radio, by the doubling of the figure of the poet: there is the invisible (dead?) poet whose words are heard on the radio, and the [...] by Andrew Joron

Bringing John Wieners Back: Revisiting 707 Scott Street April 2, 2013: In 2001 I printed a small book, Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners, an outtake from my thesis for the Poetics Program at New College of California. I wanted it to look like a mini-manifesto, a small pamphlet reminiscent of Walter Jackson Bates’s Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats-- something that could pass as [...] by Micah Ballard

Ginsberg Declares Lamantia as Forerunner March 18, 2013: [caption id="attachment_62845" align="alignright" width="500"] Cover to Lamantia's Destroyed Works. Collage by Bruce Conner, published by the Auerhahn Press in 1962[/caption] Last week we posted our enthusiasms for the forthcoming Collected Poems by Philip Lamantia, in which we did some digital digging into the archives of Poetry and assembled [...] by Harriet Staff

Lamantia’s Collected Poems Is on the Way March 12, 2013: This must be the year of collected poems by neglected masters. Or at least that's the case with the much anticipated collecteds by Joseph Ceravolo and Philip Lamantia. We've expressed our enthusiasms for Ceravolo a couple of times here and here, and now we're overjoyed to see Lamantia's collected will be coming out this summer! From the UC [...] by Harriet Staff

‘When you hear my words you will see them after coming home’: Celebrating Philip Lamantia’s Birthday October 24, 2012: Many thanks to Steve Fama (from the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica) for reminding us that yesterday, October 23rd, was Philip Lamantia's birthday. Lamantia died in 2005, but his influence is still very much felt today. Fama celebrates Lamantia by looking at Meadowlark West, the last all-new collection published in Lamantia's lifetime. [...] by Harriet Staff